Folding up the bed and sliding open the doors makes room for dining or entertaining.
Remember you have 30 minutes before you have to exchange the bike for another ride, but since you're able to leave it street-side, it makes breaks for dining and museums so easy.
Viewers in New York will see one piece that didn't travel to London: "The Swimming Pool," which Matisse made for the dining room of his apartment in Nice in the summer of 1952.
He left – packed his clothes, took the bench he made for our dining room table, and moved out of the 650-square-foot Brooklyn apartment we shared for three years.
It was the most important piece in a set of six hangings made for the dining room of his grand house, Stanmore Hall, on the outskirts of London.It has only been sold twice: once in 1920 after D'Arcy died, when the whole set was sold to the Duke of Westminster, and again in 1978, when the current duke sold three of the hangings, thus breaking up the set.
Tables are widely spaced in both rooms, making for comfortable dining.
Corallina is made for casual summer dining, with grills, pizza and seafood under the poolside pergola while Capriccio Gourmet features candlelit fine-dining option in the tropical gardens.
The lack made for two unbalanced dining experiences, especially when the online menu for Mr. Foy's New York restaurant, Dennis Foy, offered peas, spinach, asparagus, carrots and tomato confit as sides in the same week.
Chef Marc Meyer is finally putting all his south-of-the-border traveling to good use at this low-key spot made for al fresco dining, with "walls" that open the whole space to the outdoors.
The dish is seemingly custom-made for dining outside, on the Platonic ideal of a Brooklyn patio, festooned with petunias.
