(The Chocolate Factory seats just 50).
Sitting alongside a pair of tuned Toyotas of similar vintage, Larry Sharp's 1977 Toyota Celica ST wore a pair of sheepskins over its factory seats – a direct contrast to heavily bolstered racing buckets found elsewhere here.
The truffle bar has a cookie warmer, and glass walls reveal the chocolate factory behind, making every seat ringside.
"There's a sense of ownership," says employee Jimmie A. Pierce, something he never felt during his 14 years at a Lear factory building seats for Ford Mustangs and minivans.
Also, some seats Recaro supplied to various factories can easily be made to fit other cars.
Mr. Morton, who designed homes around the country, bought the vacant Berglas Manufacturing Company building, a former toilet seat factory near the waterfront just south of the Brooklyn Bridge, and transformed it into an apartment house in 1975.
The Menier Chocolate Factory, a 150-seat performance space in a former factory, will host the engagement from July 5 to Sept. 14.
Mr. Ursino beamed while showing the 7,500-square-foot 7,500-square-foot 7,500-square-footar Factory: a 93-spacetheater plus a bar anext restourantheith a sleek, modern décor that seems more TriBeCa than scruformerllyburg.
At a recent Skutr happening at Fabrika, a factory turned 200-seat stage in the up-and-coming Holesovice district, the actors moved freely among the audience, in one instance pretending to find electric sex toys in people's pockets before turning them into musical instruments; in another, letting the audience's reaction set the pace of copulation between a butterfly and a fly.
But most attract the type of crowd that will make the main room at the Knitting Factory here (which will seat 400) seem awfully lonely.
