A flat sheet of falling water, ivy walls and a high tree canopy frame an open-air salon of painted city regulars.
Paley Park opened in 1967 on East 53rd Street, the original vest pocket park. Robert Zion of Zion and Breen Associates designed it on the site of the former Stork Club. CBS chairman William Paley provided the site and dedicated the park to his father, Samuel Paley. It covers one tenth of an acre, with a 20 foot wall of water at the back and seventeen honey locust trees planted on a grid above movable wire chairs and marble tables.
Source · The Cultural Landscape Foundation ↗
Broad waterwall; honey-locust canopy; ivy side walls; movable cafe furniture. Gallery tables and mounts are adaptations. Mood: under the honey locusts. Everything is procedural geometry with painted surfaces; nothing is a scan or a photograph. The room is an interpretation, and it hangs the New Yorkers the census recorded at this place first.