NEW YORK ARCHITECTURE MODELS

No city has been more photographed, more filmed, more written about — and still New York surprises you. Its architecture is part of why. In little more than a century, Manhattan became the proving ground for almost every significant idea in modern building: the skyscraper, the Beaux-Arts civic monument, the International Style tower, the Postmodern provocation, the neighbourhood brownstone that holds its own against all of them.

Our New York collection reflects that breadth deliberately. The Empire State Building and the Flatiron need no introduction. But alongside them you'll find 550 Madison Avenue — Philip Johnson's granite-topped AT&T Building, one of the most debated façades of the 1980s — and the Lescaze House on West 48th Street, Manhattan's first modernist townhouse, built in 1934 and still quietly radical. Engine 55 on Broome Street, Columbia Heights in Brooklyn, 397 Bleecker Street — these are the buildings that make New York New York, away from the postcard shots.

Each model is cast in fine plaster and finished by hand in our West Sussex studio. The New York Cityscape maps, available in three sizes, offer a different way into the city.