The Silver Factory

Day 8:

The above photo is of Andy on the infamous couch

at the Silver Factory located at 231 East Forty-Seventh Street.

A brief blurb on how the factory came to be:

"In November of 1963, Andy Warhol moved his studio into what came to be know as the Silver Factory.

Located in a non descript midtown Manhattan neighbourhood in the east Forties, the new space was an enormous loft on the fifth floor: In early 1964, he met twenty-one year old Billy Linich, soon to be Billy Name- a fixture on the downtown art scene who lived in a silver apartment. Warhol asked him to do the same thing to his studio.

In POPism he wrote, 'It must be the amphetamine but it was the perfect tie to think silver. Silver was also the past-the Silver Screen...And maybe mor than anything else, silver was narcissim-mirrors were backed with silver.'

Linich worked for several months in early 1964 plastering the raw space with aluminum paint and tin foil, transforming it into the mythic Silver Factory."