Along the line of thought about the differences between art and design, careers led by artists and designers; we shouldn’t forget those who actually played a “glue role” of getting both closer: The 19th Century artisans. It was the year Weylin’s doors were opened as The Williamsburgh Savings Bank, when artisans officially started being referred… Read More
Here’s a the interview by good old PRINT Mag! Hope you enjoy it! Designer Federico Rozo is all about challenging himself; as such, he’s produced quite the varied body of work—from graphic design to branding to artwork restoration. Check it out below, and learn more about his unique approach to design. Name: Federico Rozo Location: New… Read More
What to Expect Since 2011, marketing executives have been coming to Street Fight Summit conferences to learn about the latest products and ideas driving the local marketing tech industry. Our stages have featured Google, Facebook, Yelp, YP, Airbnb, Twitter, and Instagram. We’ve hosted the evolution of local from a digital also-ran to digital dominance. Innovators… Read More
Williamsburg’s post-Civil War business boom and transportation improvements, such as widespread trolley service, brought renewed development to the neighborhood. Broadway became “the preferred address for monumental banks, the location of Williamsburg’s premier stores, the center for entertainment, and the nexus for most of Williamsburg’s ferry-going travels.”5 Broadway served as the main thoroughfare with the New… Read More
If you loved Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and you were wishing you could experience something with that kind of “another-time-anonimity”, you better check this ball out!… The Illuminati Ball—New York City is a surreal immersive theater experience inspired by leaked photos from the Baron and Baroness de Rothschilds’ legendary 1972 fete, which drew elaborately masked guests such as Salvador Dali and Audrey Hepburn to… Read More
In 1638, the Dutch West India Company first purchased the area’s land from the local Native Americans. In 1661, the company chartered the Town of Boswijck, including land that would later become Williamsburg. After the English takeover of New Netherland in 1664, the town’s name was anglicized to Bushwick. During colonial times, villagers called the… Read More
Weylin had been spending a big amount of his private time meeting with architects throughout the last decade. The work done showed very advanced sketches of a Beaux Arts building, a Neoclassical style studied and practiced in France since the late 1600’s. The plans were kept by the Albany Family and passed along ten generations,… Read More
A console is more specifically an “S”-shaped scroll bracket in the classical tradition, with the upper or inner part larger than the lower or outer. Keystones are also often in the form of consoles. Whereas “corbel” is rarely used outside architecture, “console” is widely used for furniture, as in console table, and other decorative arts… Read More
Another beautiful fact in the story of Mr. Seymour is that even though he kept on increasing his fortune as years passed and had reached a very high social position, he never changed his original spirit and remained that lovely character everybody respected. To the poorest and to the richest, Weylin Seymour was an untouchable… Read More
Neoclassicism is a revival of the styles and spirit of classic antiquity inspired directly from the classical period, which coincided and reflected the developments in philosophy and other areas of the Age of Enlightenment, and was initially a reaction against the excesses of the preceding Rococo style. While the movement is often described as the… Read More