"We are thrilled to celebrate Juste un Clou and Écrou de Cartier collections that are indicative of the bold, independent spirit of New York by transforming the Cartier Fifth Avenue Mansion into a sleek Precious Garage," says Mercedes Abramo, President & CEO of Cartier North America.
The set showcased them as a more sleek, pop-oriented garage band focused on building sturdy rock-pop grooves without overwrought arena frills.
The supersized estate boasts 12 bedrooms, 15 bathrooms (11 full), an aquarium room, recording studio, home theater, sleek 17-car showroom garage, indoor basketball court, and close proximity to Shaqapulco on hot days.
They are garages, as sleek as the vehicles they store.
Dozens of galleries have transformed garages into sleek exhibition spaces.
The younger, brasher one is 24th, dominated by a nearly unbroken string of big, sleek galleries, all former garages, from the Barbara Gladstone Gallery to the gigantic Gagosian Gallery at 11th Avenue.
She knows the lingo, keeps up with the American circuit and is resigned to having nine bicycles dangling from the garage of her sleek new house in Mill Valley, Calif.
Mr. von Hofmannsthal opened Yumi in November 2009, turning a garage into a sleek, ambient bistro with recessed lighting, entered through a leafy terrace edged in funky fortified vines.
When Grady had moved in, he'd brought his yellow Chevy Super Sport with him, backing it into the weeds next to the garage on a sleek black trailer, which he must have rented for the day, because it was gone in the morning.
