Peter McKintosh's dark wood design creates a small, crepuscular space, a dusky domesticity, but in the background a passageway shows pacing, plotting courtiers: David Dawson flutters with exquisite venom; John Light seethes Iago-like.
But Harvard proved a durable neighbor, and in 1905 brought back McKim, Mead & White to expand the 1894 house through to 45th Street, creating what is called Harvard Hall, a dusky three-story-high space redolent of leather upholstery and ivy privilege, perhaps small change to those with a Crimson degree, tantalizing to outsiders.
Once accustomed to the dusky light, you see that the space is basically an old barrel-vaulted storage cellar that's been tidied up to resemble a kind of ersatz Mexico: tile frescos of hot rods and hotties, wallpaper promoting tag-team wrestlers, T-shirts commemorating the 1970 World Cup.
And while Paige Martin's "Panorama" was an unwieldy disaster, its opening number is still etched in the mind: under a dusky sky, a group dance graced the space's adjoining garden with a vivid, mystical force.
The studio, on the upper floor of Tiffany's duplex, was really three or even four stories in total height, the space open to the gables and disappearing into the dusky light cast by stained and other decorative glass.
Moroccan chicken, with bites of sun-dried tomato, sliced black olives and orzo, shares menu space with a delicate sole francese and an extraordinarily tender rib-eye in a rich, dusky wine sauce.
Alongside veterans James Zabiela and Sasha and Space regular Paul Woolford, there will be main room appearances for Ben UFO and Bicep, as well as Dusky and Skream, debuting his Skreamizm tour. .
Alongside veterans James Zabiela and Sasha - whose Last Night on Earth line up will include Scuba and Julio Bashmore - and Space regular Paul Woolford, there will be main room appearances for Ben UFO and Bicep, as well as Dusky and Skream, debuting his Skreamizm tour. .
dusky flycatcher (Alseonax adustus).
