The hotel's Brasserie restaurant serves well-executed, but largely uninspiring, dishes (expect to find grilled steak, corn-fed chicken and sea bream on the menu).

The structure was designed by Mies while the lobby and other internal aspects were designed by Johnson including the Four Seasons and Brasserie restaurants.

Cohen used an "extravagant publicity machine" to bring attention to the show, with the first 100 ticket buyers receiving "folding chairs and a picnic lunch catered by the Brasserie restaurant."

"But in October 1991, I was in the Brasserie restaurant, and Philip Johnson walked in, and I was so excited he was there I wanted to do homage to him."

At the Brasserie restaurant on East 53d Street in Manhattan, for example, 70 percent of the salads served are Caesar.

The architecture team Diller & Scofidio thumbed through the thousands of samples on file to research materials for their innovative redesign of the Brasserie restaurant on East 53rd Street.

Brilliant divertissements like the Brasserie restaurant, the performance piece "Jet Lag," and "Suitcase Studies," a traveling museum show on the subject of tourism, increased our impatience for something less alternative.

Without creating a theme restaurant on the motif of the International Style, the new Brasserie restaurant, two floors below, offers a set of contemporary variations on these Miesian ideas.

Their design for the Brasserie restaurant in the Seagram Building demonstrated that their mastery of materials, space and light is as advanced as their analysis of concepts.

Among Diller & Scofidio's designs is the renovation of the Brasserie restaurant in Mies van der Rohe's Seagram building in Manhattan.