![]() ![]() This method allowed for a curvilinear tile shape that followed the contours of the caregivers and children depicted in the images, said Christine Jetten, a Dutch ceramicist who has done restoration work for the manufacturer of the Sea View ornaments. The terra-cotta images were created using the “sectile” technique introduced at the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris. Almirall commissioned Sea View’s ceramics from the De Porceleyne Fles company in Delft, Holland. ![]() Although New York and New Jersey had terra-cotta companies capable of fine work, like the ornament on the Woolworth Building, Mr. Here, against a backdrop of golden tiles, could be found polychrome images of doctors, seashells, garlands, red crosses and white nurses. The most striking ornamental aspect of these pavilions was the six-foot-high terra-cotta frieze running around each building beneath its eaves. Allen became a nurse by graduating from a city program, and before returning to the pediatric hospital in her freshly earned nurse’s whites and cape, she worked briefly in Sea View’s adult wards. “My personality is such,” she said, “that I would tell them respectfully that I’d be right with them when I was done doing what I was doing.”Īfter several years, Ms. Nonetheless, she added, white parents would occasionally “show racial discrimination between their children and the workers,” wanting her to “drop what you were doing and care for their child” - as if “their child was more important than the child you were taking care of.” Working with her two supervising nurses, one African American and one German-Irish, felt like being part of a team, she said. “It was the innocent taking care of the innocent.” She was the youngest caregiver there, she said. She loved donning her blue nurse’s aide uniform, with white stockings and shoes, and caring for the babies and children at the pediatric hospital, which today is a forbidding wreck hemmed in by forest. Allen’s memories, however, are overwhelmingly positive. Following a meeting with hospital administrators, he and the officials announced that “such segregation would not be tolerated.” The discriminatory signs were removed. With racial tensions still simmering two years after a riot in Harlem, Mayor Fiorello La Guardia hopped a ferry for Staten Island. Allen had a tiny room with a door of quarter-sawn oak, a bed, a chest, a chair and a small sink. Most of the nurses there were friends of her Aunt Edna Sutton Ballard, a surgical nurse who had come to Sea View in the early 1930s - and had inspired her niece to apply to work at the hospital - and they took Ms. Smilios wrote in “The Black Angels,” “places that barred Black women from entering, except through the back door - plantation estates and stately mansions.”īut to Ms. The grand facade of the nurses’ dormitory evoked, as Ms. “A consistent effort has been made to express hospital purpose,” he wrote in The Modern Hospital in 1914, “by simplicity, and by light, air, abundant veranda space and cheerfulness.” Almirall’s pavilions - with their polygonal solariums and open-air porches flanking every floor - created a suitably salubrious environment. Following in the footsteps of the great composers, toccata promotes RAYMOND WEIL’s Swiss horology while respecting the tradition and heritage handed down from generation to generation within the family company.The gold standard of tuberculosis care at the time was the “rest cure,” essentially an abundance of air and sunshine. Unlike the classic round ladies’ toccata, this watch manages to nail a refined, retro aesthetic all the while remaining true to the Swiss craftsmanship and inspiration behind the collection.Ībout the toccata collection: This elegant and timeless collection celebrates the artistic and musical spirit behind the Brand’s DNA. The watch is completed with RW logo signature upon the crown. The tiered design gives this watch an illusion of depth without the thickness. The sapphire crystal window is framed by a beveled rectangular case. The 60 diamond case gives a sophisticated and precious impression, making the perfect gift for her. This is our shallowest case design to date which gives a very sleek profile to this watch. This new quartz model adopts a sophisticated art deco appeal with an elongated rectangular face and slim 6.25 mm case. RAYMOND WEIL introduces this design in the form of our ever-classic ladies’ toccata collection. A popular style in the Art Deco era of the 1920s and 1930s, square-faced watches are making a chic new revival. ![]()
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