Designing Giant Mushrooms for Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade

A daily mix of stories about cities, city life, and our always evolving neighborhoods and skylines. [Curbed]( MONDAY, NOVEMBER 20 new york jobs [Someone Had to Build the Giant Mushrooms for the Candy Forest]( Designing the hallucinatory spectacle of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Photo: Macy’s Inc. Painting fake leaves is more emotionally taxing than you might think. “I was crying,” says Cameron Carnivale, a lead sculptor at Macy’s Studio, holding up an armful of them and describing the process of spray-painting layer after layer to get the color saturation and detail just so. Massive blocks of Styrofoam still needed to be sculpted by hand to look like giant mushrooms for a magic candy forest. A life-size camper van, with fake ventilation panels and window trimmings that will advertise a brand of smokeless firepits (theme: “Igniting Memories”), was still waiting for final touches. [Continue reading »]( Want more on city life, real estate, and design? [Subscribe now]( to save over 60% on unlimited access to Curbed and everything New York. [Learn more about RevenueStripe...]( The Latest [An Abstract Painter’s Sprawling Soho Loft Is on the Market Mary Obering, who paid $10,000 in 1971, is selling her Wooster Street home for $5.6 million.]( By Kim Velsey [Buying at the Lombardy Might Be the Best Deal in New York A 250-square-foot apartment in a 1927 Park Avenue hotel.]( By Adriane Quinlan [A Moody $399,000 Cottage in Phoenicia and an Updated Colonial Near Hudson Plus a mid-century charmer with a footbridge.]( By Curbed Staff [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