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100 clients show up to view an apartment for sale in the Normandie...
...which was relisted at 4.7 million US dollars. The total area is 176 square meters. Anyone?
They don't mention the floor, but the view from the windows suggest the 4th or the 5th floor, close to the center of the facade that faces Huaihai Road.
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Normandie Annex and Garage, then and now
These 1930s photos from the collection of Hennie Warinner show the models framed by the elegant art deco designs on the roof of the Normandie Garage:
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The Russians score again
Some time ago I wrote about the architect Ilarion Tomashevsky and his projects in Shanghai. Today, I was finally able to verify the location of the mystery villa described in the December 1941 issue of the Shanghai Sunday Times. The beige and black marble fireplace, recessed lighting, the modernist murals by Victor Podgoursky, walnut wood paneling ( Read more... ) -
A building in Shanghai named after its Russian owner
Until recently, I only knew of the Krivoss Apartments, named after its owner and architect Boris Krivoss. But here is another - Koffman Apartments 国富门公寓, at 232 Route Ferguson, now 武康路232号. Gabriel Rabinovich built it for Vera Lvovna Koffman, b. 1888 in Yekaterinoslav. Mrs Koffman became a widow in 1932, when her husband Miron Vladimirovich Koffman ( Read more... )
