The Decker Building included a factory by which American artist on the 6th floor from 1968-73?
74e396d807558273ec505b253c8991a5
Decker Building The Decker Building—periodically referred to as the Union Building—is located at 33 Union Square West in Manhattan, New York City. Built in 1892 for the Decker Brothers piano company according to designs by the radical anarchist architect John H. Edelmann, working out of the offices of Alfred Zucker, it replaced the earlier Decker Building on the same lot, designed by Leopold Eidlitz and built in 1869. Andy Warhol had his Factory on the sixth floor of this building from 1968 through 1973. It is also where Valerie Solanas shot Warhol and art critic and curator Mario Amaya in 1968.
4b3b7a52654f944ef30e009f32024cef
Andy Warhol Andy Warhol ( ; born Andrew Warhola; August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987) was an American artist, director and producer who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art. His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture, and advertising that flourished by the 1960s, and span a variety of media, including painting, silkscreening, photography, film, and sculpture. Some of his best known works include the silkscreen paintings "Campbell's Soup Cans" (1962) and "Marilyn Diptych" (1962), the experimental film "Chelsea Girls" (1966), and the multimedia events known as the "Exploding Plastic Inevitable" (1966–67).
0b141d0b51063bc7fe7fb70b5c519502
Niels Diffrient Niels Diffrient (6 September 1928 – 8 June 2013) was an American industrial designer. Diffrient focused mainly on ergonomic seating, and his most well known designs are the Freedom and Liberty chairs, manufactured by Humanscale.
1aba052ef4b7317f53804516d684cc13
K67 kiosk K67 is a kiosk design which was designed in 1966 by the Slovenian architect and designer Saša J. Mächtig. Its system is based on polyfibre reinforced modules, which could be used as single units or combined to large agglomerations. It inhabits the cities as newspaper kiosks, parking-attendant booths, copyshops, market stands, shelter booths, chip stalls, student cafes or lottery stands, easily visible and accessible, in different colours and combinations. The unified functional design of the units enables them to fit almost any location and its context as well as numerous, diverse functions. It was manufactured by Imgrad in Ljutomer, a small Slovenian town.
f8aaf8dc47d15ea8e00d674e1c9a22e1
List of tenants in Six World Trade Center Six World Trade Center, building 6 of the World Trade Center in New York City was a U.S. Customhouse. It was completed in 1972 at a height of 105 ft (32 m). It was heavily damaged during the September 11, 2001 attacks by the collapse of the North Tower at 10:28 a.m. EDT and later demolished in December 2001.
81f18cddc020b2aaadb71f4200a39b30
Wharton Esherick Studio Wharton Esherick Studio, now housing the Wharton Esherick Museum, was the studio of the craftsman-artist Wharton Esherick (1887–1970), in Malvern, Pennsylvania. The Studio was built between 1926 and 1966, reflecting Esherick's evolving sculptural style—from Arts and Crafts, through German Expressionism, ending with the free form Modernist curves that marked his later work.
71bb941bf6b73639b14d203707005ffe
Beverly Willis Beverly Willis {'1': ", '2': 'FAIA', '3': ", '4': "} (born February 17, 1928) is an American architect who played a major role in the development of many architectural concepts and practices that influenced the design of American cities and architecture. Willis' achievements in the development of new technologies in architecture, urban planning, public policy and her leadership activities on behalf of architects are well known. Her best known built-work is the San Francisco Ballet Building in San Francisco, California. She is the co-founder of the National Building Museum, in Washington, D.C., and founder of the Beverly Willis Architecture Foundation, a non-profit organization working to change the culture for women in the building industry through research and education.
3803c2256c703a83c2e3fbd1ebc877d4
Gerhard Kallmann Gerhard Michael Kallmann (February 13, 1915 – June 19, 2012) was a German-born American architect and academic. Together with Michael McKinnell, Kallman is best known as the lead designer of Boston City Hall, which was constructed in 1968 by their architectural design firm, Kallmann McKinnell & Wood.
6737499d0fafb512f9d9c067adcf4d8a
The Hill Climber The Hill Climber is a public artwork by American artist Jeff Decker located on the grounds of the Harley-Davidson Museum, which is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States.
ab0ab4d362aae0c6056cb3b814a8e565
The Beanery The Beanery is a life-size, walk-in artwork created in 1965 by the American artist Edward Kienholz; it has been referred to as his greatest work, and "one of the most memorable works of late 20th-century art". It represents the interior of a Los Angeles bar, Barney's Beanery.
5bfa46711892eabec923820d9d31ae04
Jude Burkhauser Jude Burkhauser (10 September 1947 – 19 September 1998) was an American artist, museum curator and researcher born into a blue-collar family in Trenton, New Jersey.
517ef09aac1a41fb41af0d26be48e646
American Center The American Center is a high-rise tower in the Metro Detroit suburb of Southfield, Michigan. It was built in 1975 and stands at 26 stories, with one basement level, for a total of 27 floors.
6c358cf6680c9794b93c2d54755d3c61
Seventh at Westlake Tower Seventh at Westlake Tower was a proposed 31 story, 426 ft (130 m) skyscraper in the Denny Triangle neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. The lower 16 floors would have been used as office space, and the top 17 floors would have been 184 residential spaces. The project has since been cancelled. Amazon.com received approval in late 2012 to develop the block for office space. The office building located on the block, Doppler (also known as Amazon Tower I), opened on December 14, 2015.
c96debaae205d16778c1b05fc461e3bf
Westbrook Tower Westbrook Tower is a 213 ft residential tower located at 2121 Douglas Street in Downtown Omaha, Nebraska. The building's erection was completed in 1966 and it is 17 stories tall. It is 18th tallest building in Omaha, as well as the 13th tallest in downtown.
c3312d724769a95c887a1525f1200050
Frank McPartland Three-Decker The Frank McPartland Three-Decker is a historic triple-decker house at 61 Paine Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It was built c. 1912, when the Lincoln Street area was developed as a streetcar suburb, and is a well-preserved example of Colonial Revival styling. Its most distinctive element is its three-tier porch, supported by Tuscan columns, and with an unusual decorative balustrade. Frank McPartland, its first owner, was a postal letter carrier.
82c23db008895c6ea05261d4da2ac27f
Jo Baer Josephine Gail Baer (born August 7, 1929) is an American painter, whose works are associated with minimalist art. She began exhibiting her work at the Fischbach Gallery, New York, and other venues for contemporary art in the mid-1960s. In the mid-1970s, she turned away from non-objective painting. Since then, Baer has fused images, symbols, words, and phrases in a non-narrative manner, a mode of expression she once termed "radical figuration."
e5d831461506694b3e02932d91a60181
680 N Lake Shore Drive 680 N Lake Shore Drive ( Lake Shore Place) is a 29-story building located in the Streeterville neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. Originally named the American Furniture Mart, was completed in 1926. The two halves were designed separately: the eastern half by Raeder, George C. Nimmons, and Max Dunning; and the western half by Nimmons and Dunning alone. At 474 ft (144 m) tall and encompassing the entire block between Lake Shore Drive and McClurg Court, it was the largest building in the world when it was completed.
172aabdfc01b24f21742eca07a477822
Decker Press The Press of James A. Decker was a poetry publishing house once located in the tiny hamlet of Prairie City, Illinois. The Decker Press received national attention in the 1940s, when it published work by famous authors like Edgar Lee Masters, August Derleth, Hubert Creekmore, William Everson (Brother Antoninus), David Ignatow, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth and Louis Zukofsky.
6359bf52dc977d230f124ba3558558d9
Daniel Decker Daniel Decker is a Puerto Rican composer, singer and recording artist, who has produced work blending musical influences (classical, jazz, pop and world music) from many cultures .
6bd770cbfbf738d07b2765d277aaef00
Printing and the Mind of Man Printing and the Mind of Man is a book first published in 1967 and based on an exhibition in 1963.
6c5a79e9f7bbcf0148e41e29965ed124
Eyre de Lanux Eyre de Lanux, born Elizabeth Eyre, (March 20, 1894 – September 8, 1996), was an American artist, writer, and designer. De Lanux is best known for designing lacquered furniture and geometric patterned rugs, in the art deco style, in Paris during the 1920s. She later illustrated a number of children's books. She died in New York at the age of 102.
1e588bb9f948c99277c83372f712b30b
The Ambassador (Indianapolis, Indiana) The Ambassador is a historic apartment building located at Indianapolis, Indiana. It was built in 1924, and is a large six-story, tan cinder brick building. The first floor has Chicago school style commercial storefronts. It has a recessed entrance with detailed metal canopy and features Sullivanesque terra cotta ornamental detailing.