Designed by Cass Gilbert, who is best known for Beaux-Arts structures like the Woolworth Building in Lower Manhattan, the landmark Brooklyn Army Terminal is a more austere complex situated between Second Avenue and the waterfront and 58th and 65th Streets in an industrial section of the Sunset Park neighborhood.
The architecture of the downtown core is not entirely modern, however; the Alberta Legislature Building (1912) is notable for its Beaux Arts style.
She established lengthy residences for the Beaux Arts Trio and Guarneri String Quartet (now replaced by the Pacifica Quartet) and brought in a young Yo-Yo MandMartha ArgeriCeciliaCecilia Bartoli, as well as the Emerson String Quartet and Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
Perhaps it was during one such excursion that she saw the traditional Algerian dress that would inspire a costume she created for a Beaux Arts Ball later in 1937.
In 1937 the Lyce Franais, a French-curriculum school, picked up for a song two Beaux Arts mansions in the toniest part of New York City.
Lehman and his board of directors will have to find other ways to pay security guards and hefty utilities bills for the Beaux Arts-era museum building in the middle of Brooklyn.
Mr. Wiley's career soared, spurred by a concerto debut at Carnegie Hall with the New York String Orchestra, an eight-year stint as principal cellist with the Cincinnati Symphony, an Avery Fisher Career Grant and a nomination, with the Beaux Arts Trio, for a Grammy Award in 1998.
James Anderson, at the time that the case was dismissed, was a forty-year-old pilot for U.S. Airways, who lived alone in Beaux Arts, a Seattle suburb.
In 2007, she and her husband, David Hoffman, a partner in a private equity firm, combined two condo units on the 11th floor of the former Gift Building, a Beaux Arts structure named for the giftware showrooms it once housed.
(For those who insist on modern instruments, the Beaux Arts Trio's comprehensive Philips set remains the gold standard).
