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.
Show Notes
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
- EB-5 visas
- 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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