15,000 New Stars Take Form in Empire State Building
Ms. Amses’ etched-glass installation, measuring 13 feet wide and 5 feet high and weighing almost 2,900 pounds, is the final element in a $20 million renovation of the Empire State Building’s lobby. An earlier phase uncovered two shiny Art Deco ceiling murals that had been hidden behind plastic panels and light fixtures since the 1960s. They were restored with 23-karat gold and aluminum leaf and unveiled in 2009.
Anthony E. Malkin, the president of Malkin Holdings, which owns the building, saw the lobby as “a real letdown,” in contrast with the lobbies of two other famous skyscrapers, the Chrysler Building and 30 Rockefeller Plaza, where, as it happens, Ms. Amses and her husband, Chris Cosma, did a somewhat larger bas-relief sculpture. It is on the concourse level near the skating rink.
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