J. Cacciola Gallery Also situated in Chelsea, on the ground floor of a low avant-garde building on the corner of Tenth Avenue and 23rd street, is the J. Cacciola Gallery. Architects G. Phillip Smith and Douglas Thompson designed this remarkable dwelling with its steel façade in the 80s. According to an article in New York Times' House & Home section (Nov. 18, 1999), the building, which also contains the architects' design studio and living space, was "inspired by the projecting balconies and walled courtyards of a 17th-century Cairo house." A hole has been made in the brown steel to let a branch from a tree in the street reach into the outdoor garden, which is decorated with grayish pebbles and stalagmite-like painted granite sculptures by artist Jesùs Bautista Moroles. Pedestrians can look into the courtyard through some vertical slots in the barrier. However, J. Cacciola Gallery soon is moving to West 25th Street between 10th and 11th Avenues. (More...)