Manhattan Unfurled by Matteo Pericoli - NYC SKYLINE Book

"Manhattan Unfurled" is a beautiful and unique look at the island of Manhattan. Featured on the Beastie Boys 'To the 5 Burroughs' album cover. Deceptively simple in appearance, one is quite amazed as the Manhattan skyline truly unfurls in two continuous pen-and-ink drawings stretching 22 feet each! If you do not have the room to fully open it up, you can flip 24 accordion-style pages. Work your way up and down Manhattan's East and West sides, from small collections of apartment buildings to dense clusters of skyscrapers. It took Matteo Pericoli, an Italian-born architect and illustrator, two-and-a-half years to create this incredible work of art. Also included in a quite nice heavy cardboard slipcase is an essay by Paul Goldberger (an architecture critic for The New Yorker) and a handy guide pointing out famous (and not so famous) landmarks for those who may not be intimately familiar with one of the world's great skylines. Although published in October 2001, the book of course features Pericoli's rendition of the World Trade Center. $83 on Amazon currently / $42 used. Located King St W and Dufferin St. See my other listings.