![Eastern Birds](https://peterkorver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/American-Kestrel-Carlyle-ceiling-a.jpg)
Eastern Birds
Three new painted ceiling panels for an apartment at the Carlyle Hotel - New York.
A stylized coffered ceiling, with indigenous Eastern U.S birds. A collaboration with William Cullum / Thomas Jayne at JDS - NYC.
"Eastern Birds" was executed at the Amsterdam studio.
Installed in New York City in 2023.
![Common Grackle<p><h6>( Detail )</h6><p>.](https://peterkorver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Grackle-adjust-Carlyle-ceiling-Peter-Korver-WEBc.jpg)
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![Eastern birds<p><h6>Lay-out for a Carlyle ceiling</h6>](https://peterkorver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Carlyle-Lay-out-Peter-Korver-WEB.jpg)
Lay-out for a Carlyle ceiling
"Cycling or walking through the centre of Amsterdam on late winter nights, I sometimes hear the sound of wild geese crossing over, through the darkness, high above the city.
Like sounds from a parallel universe. .
For me it's a deeply cherished phenomenon."
![Common Grackle<p><h6>( Detail )</h6><p>.](https://peterkorver.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/grackles-2-web.jpg)
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![Pintail duck<p>.](https://peterkorver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Pintail-duckl-Carlyle-ceiling-Peter-Korver-b-web.jpg)
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![Yellow Billed Cuckoo](https://peterkorver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Cuckoo-Carlyle-ceiling-Peter-Korver-WEB.jpg)
All these birds here in the center of Manhattan would consider the Hudson River woodlands as their natural habtat.
![Waxwings<p>.](https://peterkorver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Waxwings-Peter-Korver-Carlyle-WEB-b.jpg)
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Graphically stylized and almost abstract, yet executed in subtle limestone hues, giving it all a “life” touch, and warm light.
The inner squares are like islands of detail and colour; sky, birds and ornaments, set like gems in a vast grid structure .
It was the great insight of William Cullum at JDS-NYC that this design with some adjustments, might also function on a smaller scale at this Carlyle Hotel apartment..
And it does .. brilliantly so ..
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![American Kestrel<p><h6>( Detail )</h6><p>.](https://peterkorver.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Kestrel-Carlyle-ceiling.jpg)
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![Eurasian Starlings<p>.](https://peterkorver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Carlyle-ceiling-Cullum-phone-WEB.jpg)
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I think using indigenous U.S birds might be a good idea, as there is such a simple and elegant sense of logic to it.
Amsterdam 17th c. bird ceilings – a genre of which I’m currently installing a new interpretation in a 1670's canalhouse monument - would often show a mix of tropical and local birds, thereby reflecting a sense of wealth, international orientation and the far reaching influence of Dutch military and colonial power. . . Later that would shift to an early scientific Natural History approach .
Today, when almost everybody is a cosmopolitan in some sort of way, I think using a specific selection of native birds has (re)gained a different meaning. From the perspective of preservation. . but also as a sense of “belonging” and "locality". .
"Cycling or walking through the centre of Amsterdam on late winter nights, I sometimes hear the sound of wild geese crossing over,
through the darkness, high above the city.
Like sounds from a parallel universe. .
For me it's a deeply cherished phenomenon...."
Best from Amsterdam
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![Waxwings<p>.](https://peterkorver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Waxwings-Peter-Korver-Carlyle-WEB-a.jpg)
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![American Kestrel<p><h6>( Detail )</h6><p>.](https://peterkorver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Kestrel-Carlyle-ceiling-Peter-Korver-WEB.jpg)
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![Common Grackles<p>.](https://peterkorver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Grackles-Grid-Peter-Korver-Carlyle-ceiling-WEB.jpg)
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![Pintail duck<p>.](https://peterkorver.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Pintail-duck-NY-Carlyle-A-WEB.jpg)
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![Eastern birds<p><h6>Lay-out for a Carlyle ceiling</h6><p>.](https://peterkorver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Carlyle-Lay-out-Peter-Korver-WEB.jpg)
Lay-out for a Carlyle ceiling
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![Blue Heron<p><h6>- Detail of the installed ceiling - Walls by Pierre Finkelstein -</h6><p>.](https://peterkorver.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/Heron-Carlyle-Ceiling-Peter-Korver.jpg)
- Detail of the installed ceiling - Walls by Pierre Finkelstein -
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![The Carlyle Hotel NYC
Seen from Central Park](https://peterkorver.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Carlyle-nyc-web.jpg)