The 23, 000 square foot store will be pulling into the Beaux-Arts style train station with a little baggage, however.
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In Sullivan's day, American architectural studies were dominated by the French Beaux-Arts tradition, and particularly by Viollet-le-Duc's romantic rationalism.
Eisenstein was fascinated by Mexico and by its complex layering of cultural strata: pre-Columbian civilisations, Spanish baroque, 19th-century Beaux-Arts and revolutionary modernism.
In 1902, Flagler completed "Whitehall, " his Beaux-Arts mansion, which followed the opening of his resort, the Palm Beach Inn renamed the Breakers in 1901.
The unusual condo apartment combines portions of the century-old Beaux-Arts hotel with a new loft-like rooftop construction with skylights and an angled wall of glass.
The W is also centrally located next to the exquisite Beaux-Arts-style Opera Palais Garnier (ask for a room with a view of it) and easy access to several Metro lines.
The gilded NoMad, drawing design inspiration from its 1905 Beaux-Arts structure and designer Jacques Garcia's former Paris apartment, boasts a Parisian-style restaurant flowing into the lobby of the hotel and furniture modeled after French originals.
The early influence of French Art Deco aesthetics can be seen in the stained-glass ceiling of the ballroom in the otherwise largely Beaux Arts-style old French Sports Club -- now the Okura Garden Hotel -- as well as in some other interior flourishes.
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To counter the onslaught of contemporary hotel stylings, the old school Beaux Arts Ritz-Carlton recently modernized its famous lobby bar and dining room to mixed reviews.
Grab a bagel with cream cheese and lox and head east to the intriguing, esoteric American Museum of Natural History, which is housed in a massive 19th-century Beaux Arts building off Central Park West.
Which is probably why former San Francisco Mayor Joe Alioto (1968-1976) once called this Beaux Arts estate his home.
To experience the best leg of Via's cross-country service, take the Snow Train, which runs from Vancouver's grand beaux arts railroad station through a series of stunning snowbound mountain ranges to the hamlet of Jasper in the middle of 4, 200-square-mile Jasper National Park (home to some of the world's best, least-crowded skiing, at Marmot Basin).
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