Bryant Park lawn behind the library
— — a green room with the city for walls.
Not only on a wall.
“A single lawn the size of a city block, hemmed by London plane trees and bordered on the east by the back of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Office workers eat lunch on the grass in summer; a small carousel turns near the south end; the winter market replaces the lawn with an ice rink and pine huts from late October through early March. Midtown towers stand around the perimeter, watching the park stay quiet. — from the studio
Bryant Park lawn behind the library, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
Bryant Park occupies a single 9.6-acre block in Midtown Manhattan, bounded by Sixth Avenue, 40th Street, 42nd Street, and the rear elevation of the New York Public Library's Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. The site was designated a public park in 1847 and named for the poet and editor William Cullen Bryant in 1884. After a long decline it was redesigned by Hanna/Olin and reopened in 1992 under the management of the Bryant Park Corporation, the city's first privately managed public park, and is now one of the most heavily used green spaces in the country per acre.
The park changes shape twice a year. From late October to early March the central lawn becomes the Bank of America Winter Village rink, free to skate with rental skates, ringed by holiday shop huts. The lawn returns in April, holding warm-weather programming including free yoga, the HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival on Monday evenings, and a small Le Carrousel near the south end. London plane trees line the perimeter allées; in October they turn a yellow-bronze that reads warm against the limestone library behind.
Open daily and free. The lawn closes briefly each spring and autumn for resodding. Subway access is direct from the Bryant Park station on the B, D, F, and M lines and the 42nd Street-Bryant Park station on the 7, both of which exit into the park. Movable bistro chairs and tables sit throughout the gravel terraces. The Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, with its lions Patience and Fortitude, fronts Fifth Avenue immediately to the east; the Times Square crossroads is three blocks west on 42nd Street.