Historic auction for The Four Seasons restaurant an unprecedented success Wright’s record breaking auction totals $4,105,623 — over four times the original estimate. Buyer's participated from all over the world to buy every single lot in the 650 lot sale. Thousands of bidders participated in the auction, which began at 10 am and ended after midnight. Held at The Four Seasons restaurant, hundreds were in attendance and bidders remained in the landmarked Grill Room and Pool Room bidding until the early hours of the following morning. With active bidding lasting 10 minutes, the standing room only crowd watched the first lot of the sale, the bronze sign from the lobby entrance, sell for $120,000. Featured in the News WallpaperFood & WineTown & Country DezeenArt Market MonitorBusiness Insider Wright has published a special catalog documenting the history of the seminal interior of The Four Seasons restaurant. Order your copy today! The Four Seasons: The People
My first visit to The Four Seasons was in late 1978. I was working as a writer at Time, and the dust from the Canadian provinces was still fluttering from the hem of my thick tweed jacket. The famous New York restaurants in those days—or at least the ones we had heard about up North—were Mamma Leone's, “21”, Lutèce, the Oak Room, and The Four Seasons. For that first visit to The Four Seasons, I went with a friend who was visiting from Toronto. Being nobodies, we were seated not in the Grill Room where the mandarins of commerce and the arts nibbled their fish and baked potato, but in the Pool Room, which was filled with genteel people who had taken the train in for a day of shopping and culture. I was to learn that at lunch, the Pool Room was Siberia. To this import from the North, it was the most beautiful Siberia in the world. The Four Seasons: The History It is hard to remember, given all that has happened in the world of restaurants in the last several decades, that there was once a time when the idea of a luxurious restaurant meant the presence of white tablecloths, a few wall sconces, crystal chandeliers, red velvet banquettes, walls decorated with murals of France and maybe a few sets of mirrors
, the main purpose of which was to distract your eye from the fact that the room itself was, in all probability, ordinary and cramped. The Four Seasons: The Food Unless I am mistaken, and inasmuch as I’m a restaurant critic that’s hardly possible, you are not here today simply because you like to shop. You’ve come because you love The Four Seasons, or because The Four Seasons has meant more to you than any other Manhattan restaurant, or, at the very least, because you respect the impact of The Four Seasons. It is the most majestic, expensive, daring, and, to many of us, beloved restaurant in the history of New York. It is the restaurant that will forever stand at the pinnacle of American dining. You might have forgotten how much this restaurant has meant to New York, or maybe you weren’t around to experience all its wonders, the events that occurred here because they could not have happened anyplace else. Begin with the 14-square-foot pool, where so many guests were baptized in merriment, Sophia Loren among the most prominent.
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