Monday, March 29, 2021
Sant Ambroeus at Brookfield Place
Started in Milan in 1936, the Sant Ambroeus restaurant family consists of four New York City locations, with outposts in South Hampton and Palm Beach...and now the newest member of the family is at Brookfield Place in lower Manhattan. Designed by Robert McKinley to echo Italy's impressive theaters and resplendent 18th- and 19th-century cafés, the space features a very Milanese sensibility with gorgeous papaya-colored silk moiré walls and a staggering eighteen foot high, 992-pound Murano glass chandelier. The designer was especially struck by the modernist grandeur of Turin’s Teatro Regio, rebuilt by architect Carlo Mollino in the late 1960s. Why not combine that vibe with something as New York as the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, McKinley reasoned? The result feels like an Art Nouveau version of La Scala crossed with the modernism of Le Corbusier.
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