Architect Breaks Down 6 Luxury Apartments from Billions, Gossip Girl & More | Architectural Digest
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- Опубліковано 28 тра 2024
- How have the homes of the wealthy in New York City been portrayed in film and television? Join architect Michael Wyetzner of Michielli + Wyetzner Architects as he breaks down the NYC luxury of 'Mr. Deeds,' 'Gossip Girl,' 'Billions,' 'Cruel Intentions,' 'Rosemary's Baby' and 'Big.'
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Poor people, making the best of their living situation.
Rich people: this is mine now
That's not really classism so much as shifting standards.
I'd call it imperialism.
Wanna build Soviet States of America?
The wealthy don't like it when the poor enjoy things, makes them uneasy. The only way a commoner is allowed to enjoy life is if it's handed to them publicly to appease wealth-guilt.
^ Look at these actual classist scum.
If you look into any case where the rich ended up doing what the poor were doing before, there's a logical reason for the shift.
It never ceases to amaze me how elements of the poor commoner became things of luxury over time. Lobsters, tanning, ghetto areas, and now add scenic penthouses lol. Great series btw!
I mean, they sort of did, but they all kind of make sense.
Lobster was the food of the poor because lobster was super-prevalent back then. This lead to large consumption, which spread into further markets, and overfishing depleted wild stocks, lowering supply, which resulted in higher prices, and rebranding of lobster as a luxury food with wide familiarity.
Tans were bad back when most labour was performed outdoors, and so tans were a sign of poverty. The rich, who didn't have to work, or worked indoors, were pale-skinned and this was seen as a sign of status. As technology shifts happened that pushed workers indoors, getting enough sun exposure to tan became a form of luxury (in fact, there was a time when children were dying because they were getting basically no sun exposure, which causes vitamin D deficiency).
By "ghetto areas" I assume you mean urban/suburban shifts. This makes sense too. For most of human history, cities have been disgusting cess pits of filth and disease. When industry pulled large numbers of workers into cities initially, these were valuable jobs, and so they pulled in a higher class than those who worked in more rural contexts, so there was an attraction of the wealthy. As this became more common, the rich wanted to get away from the filth and commonality, so they migrated into suburban environments with more space and cleanliness. As standards generally improved, however, and industry moved out of cities, they became cleaner and more desirable centers of cultural activity, which has seen "gentrification" emerge, which has again pushed the poor out. EDIT: and of course, it's the rise of the automobile and road networks that enabled people with means to migrate out of urban areas.
The penthouses were explained in this video.
next thing you know, restaurants will be charging people to eat food from the dumpsters. xD
Laviath once they decide to sell lands in the ghetto, or undeveloped areas where the poor reside, to developers and they build luxury skyrise apartment buildings that they then market at a high price.
@Laviath increasing luxury in poor areas is called gentrification.
GQ alsp has this series too in case you wanted more
This is my favorite thing on AD, please more like this about actual architecture! Like literally an entire show dedicated to this please!
Yes very educational! I am studying interior design right now and this is GOLD!
My girlfriend and I love this guy. Please please please find any reason you can to let this man speak. I will watch him explain the history of shag carpets, idgaf.
Very knowledgeable and insightful without being snobbish or cocky. Thank you sharing with us!
exactly
Apart from how he seemed to find it amusing that artists were priced out of the buildings that they made desirable and legal. Not sure why they didn't shoot another take on that.
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What a wealth of knowledge you are.
This is my new favorite segment on AD's youtube channel. More please!!!
What a FANTASTIC host for this show. Incredibly easy to listen to and as someone who already knows a great deal about architecture and history I learned quite a bit. I hope you do many more of these.
I would love to see Mr. Wyetzner discuss the housing in HBO’s The Gilded Age. The older brownstones vs. the new money gigantic mansions. Uptown vs. Downtown. It would be fabulous!
God, those HUGE manilla folders are so satisfying when he pulls pictures out of them. Like, you know when someone hands you a folder like that you've got some capital-S Serious documents enclosed.
They're artist portfolios, made for keeping pieces of paper flat and undamaged. Find them for cheap at any art store.
@@zachpw Yep! And v appropriate for a video about architecture!
Michael is an incredibly engaging speaker and teacher who also just happens to be an architect. Thank you for bringing him back! Can someone give this guy his own Netflix Show?
Michael is baaaaack! Keep ‘em coming AD!
This was amazing. Please do ALL THE GOSSIP GIRL apartments.
More of Michael Wyetzner please! He should have his own series. He's knowledgeable and entertaining - a rare combination.
I'd like you to do the entire Mad Men apartments, offices , penthouses. Thank you AD!Great new content!
proserfina21096 Yes please! Don and Megan’s apartment would be wonderful to have more knowledge on and the offices!
Seriously! Do Mad Men. Mr Deeds?? Who cares!
YES!!!
I'd like to see the buildings featured in Ghostbusters and Ghost.
I’m still waiting
I love this guy! I'm surprised he didn't talk about Neal Cafferys apartment in White Collar
jaykess_
That would be a great episode!
June lives in a very impressive mansion in Manhattan.
I would love to have this architect explain the details to us.🌻
Yes! ❤❤❤
I found the actual address to where the tv show was filmed. According to the building's info the place is vacant and it can be rented out or leased for a short/temporary time. Again because the price has gone up it is a desirable place to live in.
You found a gem with this guy AD. I'm not particularly interested in architecture, but I find Mr Wyetzner here very engaging.
Hope this continues.
Oh yeah! This guy again! I love this format
I'm an architect, and I WISH we had someone like this man at Uni!!!!
Uhhhh I love this. Soooo much knowledge it’s so sexy
I'm glad I'm not the only one sitting here thinking him being so smart about architecture makes him really attractive!
Lukas Completely agreed! Intellectually handsome :))
I was 421. Sorry I ruined it
tf?
Okay, i could get used to this segment
Very informative and fun. The man also seems to know his stuff, and he has a very easy going aura about him. 👍🏼
This was great!! I loved learning more about the houses from some of my favorite media. Would love to see Michael come back and talk about Lily's apartment or Rufus's loft from Gossip Girl as well!
Yeah! I would also LOVE to see the Waldorf penthouse. Absolutely exquisite.
Yeeeesssss 👏🏼👏🏼
1:47 Be right back, going to sit in my elevator couch to relax.
I saw that manila folder labelled "Sex And The City", so you're now obligated to give it to us (please and thank you 😅)
Yes!!!!
This guy is the best. Super interesting, extremely knowledgeable
I'm loving Wyetzner's videos, he explains everything so clearly! Boston's Gibson House museum in the Back Bay is a perfectly preserved townhouse with all the details he describes. You can see the piano nobile, the kitchen/servants' areas in the basement, the family rooms upstairs and the bedrooms above that. And he's right about the tiny elevators...I was in Anna Moffo and Robert Sarnoff's 5th Ave/66th St apartment in the 1980's and the tiny elevator brought you up to their private entrance. The apartment was vast and beautiful, with 2 huge living rooms facing the park. The elevator dropped you off at a tiny vestibule which Moffo had decorated exquisitely with Chinese antiques. To think that huge mansions once lined these streets and they were all torn down, but the apartment buildings replacing them are just as grand in their own way.
2:04 - 2:10 guy spoke till he literally couldn’t anymore 😂
Other notable NY houses from tv shows: alex levy’s apartment from ‘the morning show’, basically every gossip girl property, the one from ‘The servant’ and of course everyones dream bedroom, Arnold’s bedroom from Hey Arnold 😂
I want to say something he kind of missed. It wasn't really the poor people that made the penthouses desirable. The reason that rich people didnt want to live in the pent house was because elevators didn't exist and having to walk up the stairs was a bad thing. Penthouses became popular when they invented the elevator.
This is not true. Elevators already existed, in fact they enabled the building of skyscrapers in the first place. So the claim that they made the penthouse more desirable for the rich in modern skyscrapers is not correct. It may have been true in older houses with a few levels only. And then this habit ( a "tradition") sorta persisted despite the elevators until the rich realized the desirability.
I'm impressed! As a native New Yorker I see so many of these presentations that just get everything so wrong. But this really describes New York living as it actually is.
thank you AD, mr. Wyetzner rocks!
I would rather listen to Michael Wyetzner talk about architecture than watch any of the programs / movies mentioned in this video. This presentation is extraordinary. Thanks to all involved.
There's nothing like listening to an expert talk about their subject matter. I could listen to this person talk about architecture for hours.
This guy is awesome. Please do Miami in movies and tv shows.
The zoning set back is so interesting! I've been watching a lot of UK tv and on the Neighmare Neighbors one, oof! People are allowed to build willy nilly and completely block their neighbors light or view, it's insane they don't have similar laws!
The producers of "Rosemary's Baby" were told that they could film the Dakota's exterior and courtyard, but could not film inside of the building, and so the interiors were filmed on a Hollywood soundstage. The set designers did an excellent job at creating sets that looked like they indeed could have been apartments in the Dakota. In fact, a large number of the film's fans believed that they did use actual apartments in the building, given how realistic and accurate the sets were. Prior to 1973 when John Lennon and Yoko Ono moved into the building, the most famous residents would likely have been Lauren Bacall and Jason Robards.
I'm only a few months into this channel, so I'm not used to this format over the tours usually given, but I extremely enjoyed listening to all the details. Fascinating to hear and see the history behind many of the buildings in New York and learn so many terms. Thank you so much!
I appreciate the houses he chose not all being the soulless, characterless minimalist luxury houses we're used to seeing from Billions
This. Minimalism is super-hard. You can do it well, but most of the time you just end up with miserable spaces that humans don't belong.
That Billions penthouse looks like it would be very echoey
Being a billionaire it’s for show only has country residents for the weekend
Love the New York history here! This is my favorite part of the AD channel by far.
The part on the Dakota was particularly juicy. Thanks for including all the details on how revolutionary it was for its time.
Seems like you truly found a gem with this guy! It's the first video that I see from you guys (cause I saw Billions in the thumbnail lol) and even though I know nothing about architecture, I enjoyed listening to this guy so much and learnt a bunch of new things in 17 minutes! I can see why people in the comments were glad to see him back. Thank you!
How on earth I stumbled onto this channel, I will never know ! But I am grateful. Thanks
Learned a lot of new things about architecture in just a few minutes.
I could listen to him talk about architecture for hours.
These series of videos are like a history of the city through architecture and development. Michael brings both the history and the architecture to life with insights that most of us would never know. If I ever make it to NYC, I would pay for a week of architectural tours with him.
I learned a lot of Architectural history just by watching and listening to his guy. I love him.
I am so fascinated with the speaker... So humble but engaging same time. Not snobbish or showing off. So interesting. And he speaks with respect both to the past and to people who lived back then. Thank you sir.
oh he has a "Sex and the City" file too, you can see it briefly at 10:51
He makes architecture so interesting and understandable. Please more of him!
I could listen to Michael talk architecture all day. Please make more of these.
I love that townhouse! 😍 Nate be like "anywhere but here!" haha miss him
YES!!! More Michael!! I could binge watch him honestly! Please do more segments!!
I am loving these videos with Mr. Wyetzner, thank you very much!
Incredible. Now i'd watch this over and over again. Thankyou AD
The most informative and brilliant part of this channel, more please!!!!!!
This. This right here is the content I love to see!
Michael Wyetzner is always great. Thanks for having him on again AD!
Mr. Wyetzner is an awesome teacher. Enjoying him and this series very much AD!!
This series is fantastic! The architect explains everything so well!
I've just found this video on my recommendations, and it's truly wonderful. The editing is extremely well done, the information is clear (crystalline, even) and so visual, helping you to understand why America's skylines are the way they are. Thank you so much for this.
I LOVE this vocabulary / etymology approach to architecture and how the "power structure" informs and undermines it too. Thank you!
I love this guy sm please keep this series running!
Wow, this is soooo good! I could watch this and the history of this amazing buildings for hours!
Absolutely love this format. Please more.
Really enjoying this series w Micheal Wyetzner! So informative!
So so Good! More episodes with Michael Wytzner please!!!
Please make more! He's very knowledgeable, and the video held my interest until the end.
This was absolutely fascinating!! Love the mix of history, cinema and grand architectural details.
This guy is the reason I subscribed to this channel! Please keep these videos coming
I grew up and went to school in NYC and I wish we could have had you as a guest history teacher, since this is the first time I'm learning what you present - thank you !
AWESOME AD Talk!!! So enjoyed Michael’s insight and historical explanations. Thank you
Love it! Thanks A.D and Michael Wyetzner, for this New York City architecture breakdown.
This videos is like one of the bests I ever watched on this channel
These videos are fascinating. So engaging and so well explained! Thanks, AD.
Thank you Mr. Wyetzner. That was wonderful! I'd love to hear you discuss real-life properties as well.
Just wonderful. A pleasure to listen to an expert who's both knowledgeable and engaging.
This is one of the most informative yet entertaining videos I have watched here on youtube. Very well made video.
So good! More please. thanks!
This is an amazing segment! My husband and I absolutely enjoy watching it! The architect explains in such an accessible way, it makes it very interesting!
I learn something new every time I watch this series. Thanks AD
more like this pls!! so informational yet so entertaining!
I need MORE of Cruel Intentions... my fav movie ever!!!
SUCH A GOOD EPISODE. golden find
Thank you so much, AD! This is the content we want!!!
please turn this into a mini-series!! awesome job!
Fantastic video! So glad Michael is back!!
Not only is this gentleman super enjoyable to listen to...the editing of this video is AhhhhhMAZING. So fresh. Good job! More please! Super impressed!🤗👍🏻👏🏻
This was very interesting, especially the history parts. Michael please do more of this!
Great breakdown. I also appreciate that I'm not the only one having problems drawing straight lines without a ruler.
Love love love this series. I learn so much and it’s fascinating!!! Thank you thank you 😊
I truly appreciate this video. Love NYC and architecture. I hope he does more videos like this. I learned a lot!
Thank you! Good information well presented in absorbable amounts at an unhurried pace.
I love these videos so much. Mr. W. is so knowledgeable and speaks so well, it’s a pleasure to listen to him. I’ve learned a lot just in a few videos.
So good in every way and I love the architect!
This is amazing. More of this incredible knowledgeful man, please.
Thank you for this short, yet comprehensive tour.
love this! wish you would do all of the gossip girl apartments as they have very beautiful sets
he is amazing . We are learning so much . Best vids on AD ! Merci depuis la France !
What a fascinating video with incredible history! Michael is very interesting to listen to, and I love all the old pictures of NYC.
I love this series on AD. Great job!!!
Love this program, please do more episodes.