Palazzo Chupi

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Coordinates: 40°44′07″N 74°00′32″W / 40.735296°N 74.009022°W / 40.735296; -74.009022
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40°44′07″N 74°00′32″W / 40.735296°N 74.009022°W / 40.735296; -74.009022

Palazzo Chupi in March 2009

Palazzo Chupi is a residential

palazzo, built on top of a former horse stable. Schnabel uses the lower four floors, the former stable, as a studio.[1] They also contain a parking garage, art gallery space and swimming pool.[2]

The building, which contains five "palatial"[2] units, is easy to spot because of its singular style and bold pink color.[3] The name is taken from the trendy Spanish lollipop called "Chupa Chups"; Schnabel used Chupi as a pet name for his second wife Olatz López Garmendia.[2]

Schnabel says that he built the Palazzo "because I wanted more space, and because I thought I could sell two or three apartments to pay for that space, and I built it because I could."[2]

Critical response

According to a description by Penelope Green in the

New York Times, Palazzo Chupi is "[c]inematic and lovely inside, [and] the condo-palazzos float like Citizen Kane's Xanadu high above the remains of the West Village.[2] But Green dismissed the building as a "brand extension for the omnivorous Mr. Schnabel."[2]

Art critic

transsexuals left[4] it seems they were reincarnated as real estate... At least the Palazzo does them proud."[2]

But Andrew Berman, executive director of the Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation, describes Schnabel's building as "woefully out of context and a monument to this guy's ego." Berman has described the Palazzo Chupi as "an exploded Malibu Barbie house."[2] The building is situated less than a block outside the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission's Greenwich Village Historic District Extension I,[5] and sits next door to 354 West 11th Street, a well-preserved Greek Revival row house dating from c.1841-42.[6]

References

  1. ^ "For Rent: Julian Schnabel's Palazzo Chupi," Kevin Brass, April 27, 2009. New York Times.
  2. ^
    New York Times
    (November 12, 2008)
  3. ^ Barbanel, Josh (December 6, 2009). "Price Cuts of a Princely Kind". The New York Times. Retrieved May 7, 2010.
  4. ^ Before gentrification of the neighborhood began in the 1990s, the street was noted for its colorfully dressed and sexually eclectic transsexual prostitutes.
  5. ^ ""NYCLPC Greenwich Village Historic District Extension Designation Report"" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on June 8, 2010. Retrieved June 2, 2011.
  6. ISBN 978-0-470-28963-1
    ., p.58

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