“Vanity and Grime”
This month, Stureplan, billed as Sweden’s most exclusive and glamorous superfashion magazine, unlocks the door to 740 Park in a Q&A with Michael Gross by its New York correspondent Eva Wisten, who writes that the book “reveals the vanity and the grime behind the world’s most beautiful facades.” — Stureplan, No. 4
“Mitt i prick Mr Gross.”
Speaking of which, Stockholm blogger Andreas Norinder, aka Le Garçon Suédois, comments on the interview in Stureplan. No, he’s not calling the 740 Park author a bad name. The headline above, he explains, means “Right in the bullseye, Mr. Gross.”
The Rich Get Richer… and Richer… and Richer… and
The New York Times reports that United Technologies chairman George David, owner of the triplex penthouse at 740 Park Avenue, got a bonus of $13 million in stock options this year above and beyond his pay and perks package of $14 million for helping plan his own retirement and winning a magazine’s praises. Every little […]
“Rarified real,” on amazon.com
Author Michael Gross “knows just how to weave historical fact with what seems fictive magic but is really what I would call rarified real… glimpses of over-the-top lifestyles were never more appealing. Some of my best friends lived in 740 Park and I thought I knew all there was to know, but was wowed nevertheless,” […]