Golden Networking's Distressed Investing Experts Forum 2010 Hosted at Beaux-Arts De Lamar Mansion, in Murray Hill, New York City

New York, NY, September 20, 2010 --(PR.com)-- More than a hundred executives, professionals and investors will join Golden Networking's Distressed Investing Experts Forum 2010, "Analyzing and Valuing Distressed Companies, Securities and Real Estate" (http://www.DistressedInvestingExpertsForum.com), held on September 21st, 2010, at the home of the Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, the De Lamar Mansion, the imposing Beaux-Arts style house in Murray Hill, designed by the noted New York architect, C. P. H. Gilbert, in the great scale and elegance of the limestone mansions that once lined Upper Fifth Avenue.

According to Wikipedia, Captain Joseph Raphael De Lamar built this house as a family residence for him, but this magnificent and lavish building had never been used according to the initial intentions. Joseph De Lamar soon divorced and his daughter Alice never found happiness in that home. After the death of De Lamar in 1918 at the age of 75, the mansion was sold to the American Bible Society, and in 1923 the National Democratic Club purchased it for its headquarters. In 1973, Republic of Poland bought the mansion. The De Lamar Mansion was designated a landmark by the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission in 1975.

The main facade and entrance of the mansion face 37th Street. The facade is designed in a tripartite division both vertically and horizontally. The vertical division is the dominant one, reinforced by projecting end pavilions. The horizontal division is created by a wide, smooth-faced, molded bandcourse above the ground floor and by the roof cornice above the third floor.

One of the roost attractive features of the design is Gilbert's subtle use of asymmetry within symmetry. The first three floors display a careful balance of architectural elements while the upper two stories introduce an asymmetrical composition creating a sense of height that belies the size of the mansion and gives the building its nose striking feature. The sense of asymmetry and height are further emphasized by the continuation of the rustication of the lower floors up into the fourth floor of the western pavilion, giving it a tower-like appearance.

The major windows of the first three floors of the building are paired, which the exception of those on the recessed section of the Madison Avenue facade. All have smooth-faced enframements which provide contrast with the rusticated wall surfaces. At the second floor of the end pavilions, tell paired windows with wide stone millions and transom bars are set behind balustrades supported on massive console brackets which are decorated with classical swags. Over the windows are dentiled cornices carried on console brackets that are extended up to serve as sills for the third floor windows, uniting them vertically. The windows of the third floor have handsome ornamented, curved transom bars. Above the third floor is a dentiled and modillioned cornice carried on massive, paired console brackets at the corners.

Distressed Investing Experts Forum 2010 is produced by GoldenNetworking.net (http://www.goldennetworking.net), the premier networking community for business executives, entrepreneurs, investors and diplomats, founded by former McKinsey consultant and Columbia Business School MBA Edgar Perez.

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