Art House (New York City, New York)

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The building was designed in 1993 by Kohn Pedersen Fox as the Madison Avenue flagship of Barneys New York, the largest new store built in New York City since the Great Depression. The store is a 22-story building with 14 floors of offices above and 10 for the department store. The wood floors, a marble mosaic on the lobby floor, gold-leaf ceilings, and lacquered walls of the new Barneys store reportedly cost $267mil. Its interiors were originally designed by Peter Marino Architects with separate men's and women's stores that were linked only on the ground floor.

More recent overall renovations were done by Lalire March Architects for the LL, 1st, 4th, 5th, 6th (women's) and 8th floors which removed the partition between the men's and women's section to create a unified floorplan. Men's-specific renovations on the 6th floor were by Steven Harris Architects; the ground floor was designed by Yabu Pushelberg.

The Madison Avenue flagship closed in 2020 after the chain declared bankruptcy due to the rent increasing to $30 million from Ashkenazy Acquisition Corp. which owned the building. It is set to be converted by WHY Architects as a showroom for the European Fine Art Foundation. However, the Barneys name will live on as a pop-up store within Saks.

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