Guastavino As Architect
Few structures designed and built by Guastavino alone have been identified. He was responsible for a series of rowhouses with unusual Moresque features on West Seventy-eighth Street (121-131 known as the "red and whites"), in Manhattan's Upper West Side, which survive. On its Facebook page, Guastavino claims "Guastavino's is one of New York City's premiere event spaces, located under the 59th st bridge in midtown Manhattan. It was designed by and named after the renowned Catalan architect, Rafael Guastavino." His son Rafael's Mediterranean villa (1912) built entirely of Guastavino tiles, still stands on Awixa Avenue, Bay Shore, Long Island.
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