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Recent Examples of caryatidThe site includes a central area with a cross vault and large caryatids with baskets, a large niche with a rocky backdrop and fountain, and three arms.—Sandra Salibian, Footwear News, 16 Apr. 2025 Best of all are the caryatids of the St. Pancras New Church, four toga-wearing terra-cotta ladies who bear part of the roof, austerely holding the gaze of passengers on the top level of the No. 30 bus.—Francesca Carington, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025 In a quiet section of Paris, in the 13th Arrondissement, a large building with recessed columns, Romanesque windows, and caryatids preserves an ancient art.—Peter Saenger, airmail.news, 28 Dec. 2024 The Greek key patterns inscribed on the floors of tenement bathrooms are repurposed as part of an architectural frieze, and Woodman’s friends—Rankin among them—are transformed into towering caryatids.—Chris Wiley, The New Yorker, 16 Apr. 2024 Sometimes a caryatid has been compared to the unseen slave who carried society’s burdens.—Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 15 Nov. 2023 Her inaugural works for the Met’s façade—a set of four female bronze caryatids, larger than life and stylized in the tradition of high-ranking African women—challenge the institution’s own history of Eurocentrism and patriarchy.—Time Staff, Time, 20 Dec. 2019
The group was later able to recover the statue — with the figures ripped from their pedestals and broken into pieces — and set about trying to re-erect it.
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Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
3 Oct. 2025
For the traditionalist, a pewter pedestal can give any old bar a regal air, while a marble option leans more eclectic.
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Kate McGregor,
Architectural Digest,
24 Sep. 2025
With pilasters, a limestone facade, and classic symmetrical design, the three-story building exemplifies the Beaux-Arts style popular at the turn of the 20th century, grand but not ostentatious.
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Irene S. Levine,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
But entering via the Park Avenue lobby, with its walls and pilasters of Rockwood stone, still feels like a moment.
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