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The Seagram Building, that modernist monument at Park Avenue and 53rd Street, was named the city's newest official landmark yesterday by the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
So, too, was The Four Seasons, the restaurant on the Seagram Building's ground floor where the city's rich and powerful dine on game and other elegant concoctions in a setting of cool beauty.
The designations are unusual for a couple of reasons. First, the building's owner enthusiastically supported the new status for the tower, the plaza and the lobby - a rarity, since landlords usually fight tooth-and-nail against what they perceive as potential limits on what they can do with their property. Second, The Four Seasons becomes the first landmark restaurant interior in Manhattan and only the...