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Before the Brant house (a virtuoso replica of Mount Vernon by architect Allan Greenberg, decorated by Jed Johnson), classical architecture, if attempted at all, resembled a cartoon. FEATURES The entry for July 29, 1984, in The Andy Warhol Diaries reads, "We went out to the Brants' big spread in Greenwich. These rooms were the next steps for the style Johnson had developed in the Upper East Side townhouse he shared with Andy Warhol, and they showed the possibility that American classical architecture could be radical as well as patrician. [Extracted from the article] |