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New York CityBuilt 1911
Formal visitng spaces
contrasted with the servant spaces with their own elevator
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There's a kind of secrecy involved, it seems, in the way the wealthy shuffle about the hired help. I suppose they feel it adds mystique to their power, or perhaps it makes them seem powerful instead of helpless, to have their will immediately realized around them without sign of how it was accomplished. Like Prospero, with unseen shades and nymphs at their beckon. To see it mapped out like this is almost like seeing someone who has just had their pants abruptly pulled down.
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indeed.
one also wonders about the privacy of each group. the separation. I think at this point in history the feeling of privacy in front of one's own servants is ending. personal privacy generally is increasing, which in addition to the growth of a middle class which can't afford to employ servants, contributes to the disappearance of live in servants.
Instead we have them drive in from the fringe of sprawl.
there were also concerns that the servants have separate access from other servants in the apartment house, lest they gossip about their employers in the back stairs. This building, though designed for the affluent, does not go that far.
I am also interested in recommendations that the pantry isolate the door between the two at the dining room. It is recommended in design manuals of the times.
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