Van Cleef & Arpels (New York City, New York)

USA / New Jersey / West New York / New York City, New York / Madison Avenue, 691
 store / shop, Neoclassical (architecture), interesting place, movie / film / TV location
Originally built in 1928 to house a Louis Sherry shop selling delicacies like caviar and fois gras. (Restauranteur Sherry had died in 1926.) The design was by McKim, Mead & White, but the AIA Guide called it a "neo-Classical/Art Deco ho-hum candy box," and thought it was much improved by a 1986 Beyer Binder Belle redesign that turned it into a flagship for The Limited clothing chain with a startling greenhouse-like upper floor. Later alterations were made in 2000 for Hermès of Paris by Rena Dumas Architecture Intérieure (their quasi in-house interior design firm of choice for all Hermès stores).

The exterior was used as a filming location for "The Devil Wears Prada" (2006).

halfpuddinghalfsauce.blogspot.com/2013/11/louis-sherry-...
usmodernist.org/AF/AF-1929-06-1.pdf
usmodernist.org/TARCH/ARCH-1929-05.pdf
www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/realestate/19streetscapes.ht...
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Cleef_&_Arpels
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Coordinates:   40°45'55"N   73°58'10"W
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