Overlooking the terrace of Elizabeth Arden's penthouse at 834 Fifth Avenue, 1933. Real-estate developers who were also Italian-born gave Candela more important commissions, and by the late 1920s, he was the architect of choice for luxury apartments, employing 50 draftsmen. Candela established his own practice in 1920 and his first major commission was the Clayton, an apartment building at Broadway and 92nd Street, in 1922. Nevertheless, he graduated from the Columbia University School of Architecture in 1915. Organized by Donald Albrecht, the museum’s curator of Architecture and Design, and designed by Peter Pennoyer Architects, this exhibition is more than a celebration of Candela’s iconic work-it shows how he shaped luxurious city living in ways that still resonate today.īorn in Palermo, Sicily, in 1890, Candela immigrated to New York in 1909 with just $20 in his pocket and hardly any knowledge of English. Opening May 17, “Elegance in the Sky: The Architecture of Rosario Candela” at the Museum of the City of New York is the first exhibition devoted to the masterful designer. In the 1920s and '30s, architect Rosario Candela designed many sophisticated apartment buildings in New York that are still some of the most desirable addresses in the city.
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