Lever House
Two months after opening Lever House has earned a spot among New York's top power-dining palaces.
Lever House, designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill and located at 390 Park Avenue in New York City, is the quintessential and seminal glass box international-style skyscraper, and holds the distinction of being the first curtain wall in New York City.
The building features an innovative courtyard and public space. Most of the headquarters of the corporations on and around Park Avenue adopted this style of building, but none quite matched its sleekness and innovative design. Mies van der Rohe's Seagram Building across Park Avenue is arguably equal in quality, but many of the neighboring... [MORE]
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[CONT] ...skyscrapers, mostly by Emery Roth and Sons, are not particularly distinctive.
Marc Newson’s edgy design puts a twenty-first-century spin on Gordon Bunshaft’s idea of modern, a fine fit for chef Dan Silverman’s grown-up, smartly seasoned food. Wasabi crème fraîche and tobiko enrich his tuna carpaccio. Diver scallops float in an intense celery nage. And the veal chop is impeccable. Don’t resist the elegant mint-chip-ice-cream sandwich.