https://www.christinecipriani.com/home daily 1.0 2026-05-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1536257111317-IFRH0VYM7RSMC310AYQM/Penn+concourse.jpg Christine Cipriani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1536259897880-Q90SLKGCVIU373WP34P3/IMG_2986.jpg Christine Cipriani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1536330762826-SNRGU92OW5US0L05IYDR/IMG_0019.jpg Christine Cipriani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1536340242107-TIW41EN7ERWAKU7MROGA/IMG_1628+2.jpg Christine Cipriani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1399692720542-A6BR3QHKNXZNIH0PDHIK/Cover+JPG.jpg Christine Cipriani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1399695738823-WTHDTQ5QJZLPYQYR4895/IMG_0384.JPG+-+Version+18.jpg Christine Cipriani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1537294162146-5FMH6F8M0HK6JM6EGSWO/index.php-2.jpeg Christine Cipriani New York Public Library (Carrère & Hastings) under construction, 1907. The stacks were custom-built of steel and cast iron by Snead & Company Iron Works. Photo courtesy of New York Public Library Digital Collections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1548044216217-3KPM0Q9W0ZRUTDT2SEPB/500fifth_postcard.jpg Christine Cipriani I’m thrilled to be working with Norton, a house based for the last forty years in this fabulous Shreve, Lamb & Harmon building (500 Fifth Avenue) overlooking the New York Public Library — the subject of Huxtable’s famous last stand in 2012. 500 Fifth was finished in the same year (1931) as the firm’s better-known Empire State Building. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1537294466322-XWHMWZUFBWAQZYAX4EGR/IMG_0133.jpg Christine Cipriani The Ada Louise Huxtable Papers are housed at the Getty Research Institute, part of the Getty Center complex in Los Angeles (Richard Meier & Partners, 1997). This was the scene one evening after a long day in the archives: the sun, the moon, Venus, and, if you look very closely, Orion. Photo: Christine Cipriani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1537293709764-26LA1TY61G8Y5UV6ATJT/NYPL+construction.jpg Christine Cipriani New York Public Library (Carrère & Hastings) under construction, 1905; marble work on Fifth Avenue facade. Photo courtesy of New York Public Library Digital Collections https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1536342000695-JO62A67V2IKXBH40LJ5V/DSC_5673.jpg Christine Cipriani Photo: Kevin Day https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1536343785300-EVNO2KK2K46ZOLNXZ4BU/IMG_3093.jpg Christine Cipriani Isaac Bell House, Newport, Rhode Island (McKim, Mead & White, 1883) Photo: Christine Cipriani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1536598380224-K9P7BZWV9C0RS8SXDBLH/IMG_2591.jpeg Christine Cipriani Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles (Gehry Partners, 2003) Photo: Christine Cipriani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1536689036222-4PNDM4RHVN8FIQ4EKIZ1/IMG_0650.jpg Christine Cipriani Spencer Finch, Cosmic Latte (lighting installation), Mass MoCA, North Adams, Mass. Photo: Christine Cipriani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1536331430729-7W1YSTMOJQ1KB4Z9H5U3/Flagstones.jpg Christine Cipriani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1399692954076-2BXCXEQROT0OUH2LR4C4/capecodmoderncover Christine Cipriani Cover and book design: Rita Jules Cover photo: Raimund Koch https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1399437854727-BVMJFX9G8EV6E8IH7KOO/Hatch+hill Christine Cipriani Hatch House, Wellfleet, Mass. (Jack Hall, 1962) Photo: Jack Hall, courtesy of Noa Hall https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1399865946467-CAEGGCM8I1BMZ5N76ATI/image-asset.jpeg Christine Cipriani Serge Chermayeff, sketch for studio prototype House & Home, July 1954 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1405401390753-62F5NBZPOM7QARKGJ5OL/Web+option1+-+Version+2.jpg Christine Cipriani Breuer House, Wellfleet, Mass. (Marcel Breuer, 1949) Photo: Christine Cipriani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1402719174907-1WHURB31J1IWH4I70ETI/image-asset.jpeg Christine Cipriani Sharing pride of place with the NYT Grilling Cookbook at the Wellfleet Marketplace, June 2014 Photo: Diana Murphy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1408076627345-4J3JQLAPG1OJ247WD1WI/image-asset.jpeg Christine Cipriani Stillman House, Wellfleet, Mass. (Marcel Breuer, 1953) Photo courtesy Marcel Breuer Papers, Syracuse University, and Tamas Breuer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1416885241363-Q27HZUHE3TBLFGMH4AI9/image-asset.jpeg Christine Cipriani Provincetown Book Shop, July 2014 Photo: Christine Cipriani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1536686618281-ACS1SHE0KROHFTFSGWDA/IMG_0606.jpg Christine Cipriani Layered building fabric, Mass MoCA, North Adams, Mass. Photo: Christine Cipriani https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1403753132968-YM5X16TM25PTKA1Q39VU/Web+option2.jpeg Christine Cipriani Olav Hammarstrom, Saarinen House (1960, for Lily Swann Saarinen), Wellfleet, Mass., with Marianne Strengell and some of her textile designs on deck Photo: Alexandre Georges for Interiors, 1962 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5359e147e4b0a9298f5c060f/1493958732619-9YX861AY898MT3808WPR/IMG_0367.jpg Christine Cipriani Entrance to Eames House, Pacific Palisades, California (Charles and Ray Eames, 1949) Photo: Christine Cipriani