Pagoda in the New York Times' Style Magazine.

[tobacco]

A nice display of the Pagoda featured in today's Style Magazine about an architect who specifies vehicles to match clients' homes and personalities.  (Note the one glaring idiosyncracy on this '71 280 SL.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/style/tmagazine/harris.html


Bill Greffin
Chicago
#22375

[RickInTex]

Just beat me to it in posting this.  It's a a beautiful photo but not, of course, a 71.  '68 at the latest?

Rick
Dallas TX
1967 250SL, 4-speed

[Douglas]

I find it amazing that people are so clueless that they need someone to tell them what kind of car fits their "lifestyle." They might as well be purchasing a costume. And I love how this architect proclaims he has a "connoisseur's eye" What does that mean? Evian in the radiator?

Douglas Kim
New York, NY
280 SL #016220

[TR]

My wife and I were recently invited to a house warming party in the Scottsdale area.  Guests were requested to check with the architect before bringing a gift.  The place is stunning, the entire project is a giant piece of collective art.  Perfection doesn't happen by accident.

[zanone]

Photo from N.Y. Times Style Magazine.

[Douglas]

Here's a link to the same photo from the connoisseur's, er, I mean, architect's website:

http://www.stevenharrisarchitects.com/ACTIVITIES/DRIVE/5.shtml



Douglas Kim
New York, NY
280 SL #016220

[rwmastel]

quote:Originally posted by Tobacco

(Note the one glaring idiosyncracy on this '71 280 SL.)

Bill,
Help me out with this one.  What do you see?

Rodd
Powell, Ohio, USA
1966 230SL, Euro, Auto, Leather, both  tops
1994 E420

[mdsalemi]

Ahh, gentlemen, one .bmp bit map picture of a car does not tell you enough about it to pass any judgment with any accuracy.

The "clue" that it isn't a 1971 is the fact that there are no headrests.  However, if this architect is so into style, are we all sure that the headrests were not removed for the photo?  Or that the photo wasn't retouched?  Two minutes in Adobe Photoshop on this photo and the headrests are gone.  After all, those headrests would disturb the order of the perfect hedgerow behind it.  The clean lines are not disturbed when the headrests aren't showing...notice those clean lines also aren't disturbed by a side view mirror.  Perhaps that was left off intentionally, too.  Do we really know anything about this car?  I don't think so.

Don't be fooled by a photo; even if you saw the car in person there might be things added (like on my car); things subtracted (like there is apparently on this car) that otherwise make the car different then it was when it left the factory decades ago.

Michael Salemi
1969 280SL
Signal Red w/Black Leather
Restored

[RickInTex]

For some reason, I didn't notice the obvious (absence of headrests).  What I did notice--and this is much clearer in the print-version of the magazine--are the small hubcaps and wheel rings, and the early-style driver's mirror.  So, 68 at latest?

Rick
Dallas TX
1967 250SL, 4-speed

[mdsalemi]

quote:Originally posted by RickInTex

For some reason, I didn't notice the obvious (absence of headrests).  What I did notice--and this is much clearer in the print-version of the magazine--are the small hubcaps and wheel rings, and the early-style driver's mirror.  So, 68 at latest?

Rick
Dallas TX
1967 250SL, 4-speed

I only had the bit-map version to view; I don't have access to the NY times on line edition.  Funny you should mention the wheels, as I did try and zoom in on them as something didn't look right but when I zoomed it it just pixelized beyond recognition.  There was no detail on the drivers mirror, but I did notice no side view mirror.

Michael Salemi
1969 280SL
Signal Red w/Black Leather
Restored

[tobacco]

Rodd, I saw the 230/250 two-piece hubcap, and not the later 280's slotted one-piecer (which might be a challenge to alter seamlessly in Photoshop).

Let me add a quick response to Douglas and his comment on the architect as connoisseur: the term generally applies to an aesthetic sensibility, not a social one.  I think the article and photos and Mr. Harris make the point that a house and its landscaping and its furnishings are enhanced (and maybe even completed) by the right vehicle in the garage.

And for Pagoda lovers, the challenge may be to have a home and a lifestyle that ideally fit the car.


Bill Greffin
Chicago
#22375

[France]

Oh dear!! My car(s) are red and my house is peach.  Have I committed a fashion faux pas?[:0]

Trice
1968 280SL US, signal red/bl leather, auto, kinder
Sarasota FL; Alsace France

[J. Huber]

Fortunately for me, white goes with everything!



James
63 230SL

[Albert-230SL]

quote:Originally posted by Tobacco

 And for Pagoda lovers, the challenge may be to have a home and a lifestyle that ideally fit the car.

Bill Greffin
Chicago
#22375

I think this home and Pagoda are a good match...  

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Albert de la Torre Chavalera
Barcelona (Catalunya/Spain)
Feb.'64 230 SL Euro 113042-10-002432

[Eryck]

Hahahaha...good one, Albert.

1965 230 SL White Manual
Hong Kong

[TR]

Albert -- I like it!  BTW, my wife would approve of the luggage in this fine machine.

Tom in Boise