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Vitra Now Hiring
The Vitra Store is currently looking for a sales-driven, design-oriented person for part time sales at our Furniture and Home Accessories Retail Store. Hours will range between three and four days per week and flexibility. Please send your resume and / or inquiries to Tess Mederski at tess.mederski@vitra.com.
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Axor NYC Opens
The Axor NYC showroom in the Meatpacking District has officially opened to the public. Located on the second floor of the newly renovated Vitra showroom, Axor displays its modern and innovative lines of bathroom and kitchen fixtures. The showroom features arrangements and collections of fixtures to help designers and clients fully understand the products- there are also several working fixtures and a shower to test.
Axor NYC, 29 Ninth Avenue
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Axor Opening in the MPD
The Meatpacking District welcomes Axor to the neighborhood- a showroom for the high end, German contemporary bathroom and kitchen fixtures company, owned by Hansgrohe. The 3,000 square foot showroom is opening on the second floor of the Vitra store at 29 Ninth Avenue, which offers contemporary furniture from established designers. Axor NYC will feature working bathrooms and fixtures to test, and has on-site interior designers to help find the best product for your home. Check out their website for more information at www.hansgrohe-usa.com/axor
Opening September 19th, 2011
Axor NYC | 29 Ninth Avenue | 212-463-5790Photo credit: New York Times
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High Line Section 2 Now Open!
Congratulations to Friends of the High Line, who opened the second section of the elevated High Line park yesterday, June 7th. The ribbon cutting ceremony included Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Speaker Christine Quinn, Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer, Congressman Jerrold Nadler, the Meatpacking District's Diane von Furstenberg and High Line co-founders Joshua David and Robert Hammond. The High Line park now stretches from Gansevoort Street in the Meatpacking District to 30th Street in the Hudson Yards area.
The second section of the High Line park adds 4 access points, on-site artwork, new lookout points, seating areas, the "great lawn", new food vendors, and more. Additionally, at the end of the High Line is the "Rainbow City" art installation presented by AOl, which was featured last December at Miami Art Basel. Additionally, down the steps from the High Line on 30th Street is the new parking lot beer garden from Tom Colicchio, called "The Lot on Tap", set to open today June 8th and close on September 30th.
Check out the Friends of the High Line for more information, as well as Curbed's coverage with lots of pictures and details here.
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The Whitney Groundbreaking
Congratulations to the Whitney Museum of American Art, for breaking ground this past Tuesday on the Gansevoort Street site of their new Museum, set to open in 2015. The Groundbreaking ceremony took place in a tent on the lot of which their new building will be built, and was attended by Mayor Bloomberg and the new building's architect Renzo Piano, along with many of the museums donors, including NYC socialites, celebrities, and art collectors. The ceremony concluded with a live art piece by the Elizabeth Streb dance company, which dumped dirt onto Elizabeth Streb, into which Mayor Bloomberg and museum's director dug shovels and posed for the classic groundbreaking photos. Check out more information on the new building and the ground breaking ceremony from The New York Observer here.
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The MPIA was created with the intention of partnering with the NYC Department of Transportation (NYC DOT) to redesign, manage and maintain the public spaces of our neighborhood, while continuing to represent and promote the area’s business interests, produce events and manage a marketing and public relations campaign for the neighborhood.
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