Memoirs of a Perfectly Imperfect 4th-Floor Walk-up

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( Tuesday, June 20 great rooms [Memoirs of a Perfectly Imperfect 4th-Floor Walk-up]( Alex Tieghi-Walker had just gotten his Noho apartment the way he wanted it when his lease ended. Photo: William Jess Laird/ Since leaving London in 2016, Alex Tieghi-Walker, founder and creative director of the gallery [Tiwa Select](, has lived in “a shack” in Sonoma, in a drafty barn in Berkeley (which always gave him splinters), in a house in L.A.’s Echo Park that would flood when it rained, and, currently, in New York, though no longer in this fourth-floor Noho walk-up, which he recently had to leave when the lease was up. “I think this inclination to rough it comes from growing up in a beautiful but crumbling Victorian house with no shower and chimneys that made a strange whooshing noise when it was windy,” he says. Then again, he’s always been on the move. “When I was a child,” he recalls, “we did a lot of traveling, and I spent my entire childhood going to archaeological sites and museums and seeing art collections and houses.” [Continue reading »]( [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [Why Young Collectors Are Buying Fussy Antiques Talking with Michael Diaz-Griffith, author of The New Antiquarians, about the renewed interest in very old things.]( By Diana Budds [A Brooklyn Heights Carriage House Holds a Major Asian Art Archive The former home of the artists John and Richenda Rhoden was a serendipitous, and natural, fit for the collection.]( By Clio Chang [Who Is the Family Fighting a Street-Safety Proposal? A campaign against redesigning McGuinness Boulevard can mostly be traced to the Argentos, a major film-industry family.]( By Clio Chang [Why the Gucci Penthouse Has Been on the Market for 8 Years The $35M listing price seems to have been plucked out of the air, say some brokers.]( By Kim Velsey [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( [Read More From Curbed]( Introducing The City Desk, a weekly newsletter about New York. [Sign up to get it every Thursday](. [GET THE NEWSLETTER]( [logo]( [facebook logo]( [instagram logo]( [twitter logo]( [unsubscribe]( | [privacy notice]( | [update preferences]( This email was sent to {EMAIL}. Was this email forwarded to you? [Sign up now]( to get this newsletter in your inbox. [View this email in your browser.]( You received this email because you have a subscription to New York. Reach the right online audience with us For advertising information on email newsletters, please contact AdOps@nymag.com Vox Media, LLC 1201 Connecticut Ave. NW, 12th Floor Washington, DC 20036 Copyright © 2023, All rights reserved