The Landmarks Preservation Commission decides his Paul Rudolph–designed house will keep its deep vestibule. Sidewalk urinators can rest easy.
— and preservationists argued that reworking the entry would irreparably alter the house’s interaction with the street and the façade’s multiple planes of shadow and light. Plus the overhead recessed light fixtures would have to be smaller: unacceptable! The Rudolph Foundation argued against the change, as did the LBGTQ+ historian
and a couple of other preservationist entities. The LPC heard it all, discussed, and voted it down, unanimously.All joking aside: Landmarks probably made the right call. It’s supposed to care about architectural changes large and small, to preserve vernacular and elite architecture alike, and to judge any plan set before its members. Nor is this a knock on Tom Ford’s sensitive stewardship of the house or the restoration into which he’s poured money.
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