Modernist treasures from Philip Johnson's iconic Four Seasons Restaurant headed for auction

2016-06-15T15:48:00-04:00

Now that the iconic restaurant’s impending demise is only weeks away, its furniture, tableware, and custom-made Knoll furniture will be included in the 500 lots headed for auction next month on July 26. News had surfaced last summer when Seagram Building owner Aby Rosen did not renew the lease for the quintessential Midtown “power lunch” spot for the last decades of the 20th century since it opened in 1959.

Additional background on this news can be found here: Landmarked Four Seasons restaurant must not be changed, NYC landmarks commission rules

Landmarked Four Seasons restaurant must not be changed, NYC landmarks commission rules

2015-05-21T15:25:00-04:00

The interior of the Four Seasons restaurant, a vision of Modernist elegance with its French walnut paneling and white marble pool of bubbling water, should not be changed, New York City’s Landmarks Preservation Commission decided [...]. The decision was a setback to Aby J. Rosen, the owner of the Seagram Building, which is home to the restaurant. Mr. Rosen had proposed what he characterized as minor changes to the interior that was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson in 1958.

Phyllis Lambert — part of the group of architects passionately opposing Rosen's revamp plans and personally interwoven with the history of the Seagram Building like no one else — penned this Op-Ed in the New York Times last week: Save New York's Four Seasons.

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Modernist treasures from Philip Johnson's iconic Four Seasons Restaurant headed for auction

Landmarked Four Seasons restaurant must not be changed, NYC landmarks commission rules