What Color Is Schnabel's Hot Pink Building Really?
So Julian Schnabel's bright pink building—what color is that anyway, eh? And is that a leading question? Do we care? Where is Cuba? What is Cuba? These are the questions raised by the Villager regarding the hue of Schnabel's West Village crazy-house.
Schnabel called the building's color "Pompeii red...." [Schnabel's partner Brian] Kelly dubbed the building's color "dusty rose"—then later said Schnabel is describing it as "Venetian red." Or! "It's straight out of Cuba, or Venice, or Florence," Kelly said of the building's design and color. "Venice mostly—it's Venetian. There's buildings like this in Naples, in Palermo, Sicily. If you go to Cuba, you see buildings like this."
Eh, Cuba, Venice, Pompeii, Red, Pink, whatever. Same difference. We were going to go for Hustler Pink but then realized that Hustler Pink is the same thing as Dusty Rose which, we guess, is why there are so many strippers named Dusty Rose.
