Ingo Maurer, a German lighting designer who was Promethean in his delivery of illumination — fashioning lamps out of shattered crockery, scribbled memos, holograms, tea strainers and incandescent bulbs with feathered wings — died Monday in Munich. He was 87.
On weekdays, Peter Kuper can be found on the Upper West Side, steeped in the angsty writings of dead European novelists. On weekends, it is a different story. That’s when he and his wife head for their 1940 cottage outside Cold Spring, a sylvan village on the east bank of the Hudson River, where angst — and half of New York City, it sometimes seems — likes to take a hike.
NEW YORK — For architects of urban towers, the sun is a double-edged sword, producing cheap warmth and light in buildings, but also unneighborly shadows. The taller the building, the more likely it is to throw shade. This problem is of particular note when your neighbor is New York City’s High Line.
After she was widowed, she moved into the condo for a change of scene and to be close to her Brooklyn grandchildren. “I had enough of the country,” she said.
Well, yes, if it’s the penthouse at 13 Jay St. — transformed by its owners, Cary Paik, an architect who owns a design-build firm in Manhattan, and, Esther Lee, the global chief marketing officer at MetLife.
That place is Long Valley. A census-designated area with about 2,000 people in the municipality of Washington Township in Morris County, Long Valley feels like it belongs in something called the Garden State.
