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Art New England recently premiered its new Art Salon series at FP3 in Penthouse One.

Jack Dzamba was the featured artist and his black and white photographs, entitled Paris in Boston, were spectacularly presented in a dramatic setting, complete with amazing views of the Boston skyline.

Opening Night

The evening featured cocktails from Cold River Vodka (gluten free and made from potatoes!) and celebrity chef Tony Ambrose was back in the kitchen offering delicious hors d’oeuvres to invited guests.

The Art Salon series continues at FP3 throughout the Fall.  Stay tuned for more details.

In the photo to the left, Photographer Jack Dzamba, CEO of Canvas Fine Arts Center Susanne Schultz, and Rita Fucillo the Assistant Publisher of Art New England Magazine pose for a photo together on an FP3 Penthouse Terrace.

And, yes…both the art and Penthouse are for sale!!

Contact us today to learn more.

To learn more about the artist and his inspirations for this collection and book, click the video below and watch a great interview by Susanne Schultz with Jack Dzamba from Opening Night!

BNN’s It’s all About Art with Jack Dzamba at FP3 from Andrew Swaine on Vimeo.

FP3 and the Fort Point neighborhood are receiving national attention!

Check out the travel story by John King that appears in the San Francisco Chronicle….looks like the writer is smitten with the Fort Point area and its many attractions….

… “Another new/old frontier lies south of the Financial District, in the warehouses that once stored wool along Fort Point Channel. The best way to enter is on foot, across the wide dark waterway via the Summer Street Bridge. Once you cross, plunge down quiet Melcher Street. It’s a deep chasm of steep masonry: loading blocks and red brick on your left, generous windows and yellow brick on your right.

Another sort of view is available nearby on Farnsworth Street from the spacious concrete porch of Flour Bakery and Cafe. Across the way is Hacin + Associates’ FP3 – five stories of dark new brick topped by three stories of copper-clad penthouses, angled and attractively stark.”

… “This is the best of the new Boston: informed by history but adding to it with intelligent restraint.“

Read more here:  FP3 and Fort Point neighborhood featured in the San Francisco Chronicle.

A view of FP3 from the streets of Fort Point

5s Public Relations & Special Events, the folks who organized the Plank Yoga Accessories ‘On a Roll Series’ of Roof Top yoga events at FP3, are offering a special gift for one lucky participant of last week’s event.

If you attended the yoga class and cocktail party on Tuesday, September 14th, and you have a great story or photo from the event- go share it on the 5s Public Relations Facebook Fan Page for a chance to win $200 worth of Plank goodies!!

Here’s our favorite submission so far:

Photo submitted by Catherine Applegate

If you haven’t gotten the chance to attend a Roof Top Yoga session at FP3, you still have a chance!  FP3 will be offering up one of our Penthouse suites with gorgeous terrace views of the city skyline for another Roof Top Yoga session sponsored by Plank Yoga Accessories and taught by South Boston Yoga Studio again soon!  Keep checking our blog or find us on Facebook to stay updated!

Fp3 is proud to be home the 3 of celebrity chef Barbara Lynch’s culinary creations; Drink, Sportello, and Menton.  Each space offers visitors a unique atmosphere, exquisite food, and unparalleled service (did we mention FP3 residents get special treatment?).

Public Radio Kitchen recently featured an interview with (and a delicious cocktail recipe by) Drink’s cocktail master, John Gertsen, as part of PKR’s ‘Meet Your Bartender Series‘.  The author notes that John has been mentioned and admired by all the previous local bartenders featured in the series thus far- a testament to his amazing talents and hospitable personality.

“John Gertsen is one of Boston’s most respected and talented bartenders.  For six years, he manned the bar at No. 9 Park, developing a reputation not only as a supremely inventive mixologist, but also as an expert on the history of cocktails, particularly drinks from the 19th and early 20th centuries.  Then, two years ago, with chef Barbara Lynch, Gertsen helped found Drink in Fort Point.  The bar quickly established itself as one of the finest and most original in the city, if not the country.”

Read the Full Interview and get John’s spin on a Sazerac, a classic New Orleans cocktail recipe he considers the one drink he’d choose as his ‘desert island’ drink, if he could only pick one favorite.  Try the recipe at home, or stop into Drink at FP3 next time you’re in the Fort Point area and ask John to make one for you!

Sazerac Cocktail by John Gertsen of Drink

Just think, if you lived in one of the luxury condos at FP3, you wouldn’t have to drive home after a night at Drink, and you could try a new creation by John every week!

Join us Sunday, September 12th from 1pm to 3pm for our next Open House!

Take a tour of the FP3 building to learn more about the award-winning architecture and how and why Boston-based architect, David Hacin, developed the design to adaptively reuse two existing warehouse structures and one new infill building to make FP3 the ideal example of mixing the old and the new in the historic Fort Point Channel neighborhood.

The merging of old and new come to fruition in the elegant lobby and art gallery space of FP3, where the walls, ceilings panels, and custom benches were all made from salvaged Douglas Fir beams and columns from the original building.

While you’re here, be sure to take a moment to view the current art exhibit featured in the FP3 gallery, an exhibit of creatures created by artist/ print maker Vicky Tomayko, or stop by Sportello for some yummy brunch or lunch by celebrity Chef Barbara Lynch on our ground floor!

You may be wondering, ‘What is an Art Salon?’

A salon is defined as “a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste and increase their knowledge of the participants through conversation.”  Salons are commonly associated with the literary and philosophical movements in France during the 17th and 18th centuries.

Join us for a modern-day Art Salon at FP3

An evening of cocktails and conversation with photographer Jack Dzamba.  View his exhibit and book, Paris in Boston.  The book is a collection of fine art photography, bringing to light the Parisian influence in so much of the art and architecture in Boston.

Did you know that the façade of the Boston Public Library is molded on that of the Bibliothèque Saint Genevieve in Paris?  Did you ever notice how much the Genzyme headquarters recalls Notre Dame in the evening?

This event is the premiere of Art New England Magazine’s new Art Salon Series as part of its Art Everywhere Project.  Cocktails will be provided by Cold River Vodka and Ambrosia Events and Catering.

Rouvalis Flowers on Beacon Hill by Jack Dzamba

Thursday, September 16
6-8 p.m.
Penthouse One at FP3
346 Congress Street, Boston

Please RSVP to rsvp@artnewengland.com by September 13, 2010

Back by popular demand!

If you missed out on our free yoga class on the terrace of the FP3 penthouse suite on June 15th, now’s your chance to have THE yoga experience of the summer!

FP3 will be hosting another FREE evening yoga class (6-9pm) on one of our penthouse terraces as the sun sets above the bustling city streets below again on Tuesday, September 14th as the second installment of Plank’s On a Roll series!

Enjoy a group yoga session followed by fresh-fruit-infused summer cocktails provided by Cold River Vodka and delicious hors d’oeuvres from Ambrosia Events and Catering.

Plank will have a pop-up store at the event, so you can grab your very own eco-friendly Plank yoga mat or one of the other lovely Plank yoga accessories, designed by the very talented Well-Heeled-Guru, Doreen Hing.

The class will once again be taught by the staff of South Boston Yoga.

For more information or to RSVP, Click Here.

The Fort Point Channel’s revitalization should be ‘smooth sailing’ from this point forward!

The Harbor Line Exemption legislation (originally filed by Senator Jack Hart of South Boston) was signed by Governor Deval Patrick on August 3, 2010 as part of the Watersheet Activation Plan, which was the 2003 winner of the American Planning Association’s Massachusetts Chapter for Comprehensive Planning, proposed by Friends of Fort Point Channel, Save the Harbor/Save the Bay, The Boston Harbor Association, and the Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA).

The legislation is designed to improve public access to Boston’s Fort Point Channel through boating programs, increased water transportation, and touch-and-go-docks as part of Mayor Menino’s mission to transform the fifty acre land-and-water Fort Point area into Boston’s next great public space.  The Fort Point Channel is being touted as  the next “Boston Common”, with, of course, the added bonus of being on the water.  The Watersheet Activation Plan also calls for creative water-based uses, including small boat activities, performances, art installations, and special events and festivals, as well as public space to relax and enjoy the waterfront.

If you’ve visited the Fort Point area, you may have seen some of these goals already coming to fruition with events like synchronized sailing and various art installations on the water created by Fort Point area artists, such as the floating art installation, ‘House of Cards’ by Lisa Greenfield (photographed below).

'House of Cards', by Lisa Greenfield in 2008

With the passing of this legislation, you can expect to start seeing a lot more activity in the Fort Point Channel and the surrounding Fort Point area!

FP3 is proud to be part of the exciting changes that have been improving the Fort Point Channel and Boston Seaport neighborhoods.

Come see what all the buzz is about!  Stop by one of Barbara Lynch’s restaurants on our ground floor, take a tour of FP3, and become a resident of one of the most dynamic areas of Boston!

Check our Home Page for the latest announcement of upcoming Open Houses, or ‘Like’ our Facebook Page for Open House notices and information on special events hosted at FP3!  We’ve got a great schedule of events planned for the fall, so keep checking back for updates!  Recent events include art openings at the FP3 Art Gallery, Rooftop Yoga on one of our Penthouse Suite terraces, a Boston Pride Party, and more!

As you can see from the rendering of the Fort Point Channel as it appears in the Watersheet Activation Plan, the Channel will begin to see a lot more recreational boating and activities with the passing of this legislation!

Vicky Tomayko is the latest artist to be featured in the art gallery at FP3.  Her collection of creatures will be on display and free for the public to view during regular business hours until October 9, 2010.  Some of Vicky’s work appeared in today’s Boston Globe.

Vicky’s art was reviewed by Cate McQuiad for the article.  In it, Cate notes:

“Her monotypes of monstrous creatures at FP3 are both comic and melancholy, and she has a vibrant color sense. Look at the drypoint monotype “St. John the Baptist as an Artist.’’ The squishy figure is, of course, headless, and he grips to his chest a pink, heart-shaped critter with one eye on a stalk and a protruding, forked tongue. The suggestion is that this artistic St. John speaks from his heart, but even when the heart speaks, you can’t entirely trust what it says.”

Ravine in Spring for CB- by Vicky Tomayko

Sylvia's Coral Reef by Vicky Tomayko

To see more of Vicky’s colorful, sometime whimsical and sometimes melancholy works, stop by the FP3 Gallery or visit the Vicky Tomayko website.

The gallery at FP3 is currently featuring art created by Detroit-born, Cape Cod-based artist, Vicky Tomayko.  FP3 is proud to be hosting Vicky’s first-ever solo art show in Boston.

Stuff tonight notes that Vicky “takes inspiration from nature but imbues her landscapes with wit and weirdness, creating narrative worlds full of whimsical creatures — watchful forests, chubby antenna-eyed bipeds, friendly amoebas. Much of her recent work incorporates multiple printing techniques and focuses on liquid spaces.”

Sky Blue Miss You - by Vicky Tomayko

Don’t worry if you missed the Opening Reception on August 12th- her work will be on display in the FP3 Lobby/ Gallery space until October 9th!