Andi Schmied is an artist and architect based in Budapest. On a fellowship with the Triangle Arts Association, she traveled to New York, impersonating a “Hungarian billionaire’s wife” and prospective
apartment buyer to gain access to some of the highest and most expensive real-estate in the world. The result is “Private Views,” a book documenting through photography and research the rarified atmosphere of the so-called “pencil towers” now dotting the Manhattan skyline.
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Intro/Outro: “Something for the Girl with Everything” by Sparks
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Discussed:
Calacatta Tucci marble
Miele appliances
New York State LLC purchase transparency law
Lawsuits over construction defects at 432 Park Avenue, by Rafael Vinoly
One57
Trump Tower
Lantern House by Thomas Heatherwick
53w53 (MoMA Tower) by Jean Nouvel
56 Leonard, by Herzog & de Meuron, with sculpture by Anish Kapoor
85% of ultra-high-net-worth (UHNW) individuals
are men
90% of billionaires are men
A Dubai-style free zone in Hungary
Editor Irena Lehkoživová and VI PER gallery
Next project 1: World Islands, Dubai
The Palm, Dubai
Next project 2: London’s “Iceberg Homes”
Oliver Bullough’s Kleptocracy Tours
From Russia with Cash
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