1958 - Pool room 

1958 - Pool room 

1958 - Dining room and Bar 

1958 - Powder room 

1958 - Lower Lobby 

1958 - The Four Seasons in 1960, one year after it opened. In its time, it was the most modern, the most daring, the most New York restaurant the city had ever seen 

1958 - Philip Johnson, who shaped the architecture of the Four Seasons, celebrated his 95th birthday there in 2001. The restaurant was defined visually by the confident modernism of the Seagram Building, where it was located 

2008 - Pool room 

2008 - Dining space  

2008 - Bar 

2008 - Powder room 

2008 - Lower Lobby 

2008 - Damaged chain shades 

1979 - America's Most Powerful Lunch  After the restaurant was sold in 1973, a new group took over. The grille room was established and they hired a new chef, maître d – But the restaurant was not noted for the food. Nora Ephron often came for lunch, she brought the publishers in and bit became known as a power lunch setting. Philip Johnson held a round table there. Henry Kissinger and Tom Wolfe were regulars. They were not alone. Other regulars Henry Grunwald, Clay Felker, Bess Myerson, Gene Shalit, Richard Snyder, Gloria Steinem, James Beard, and you, Michael Korda, Calvin Klein, Edgar Bronfman, and you, Jackie Onassis, Nelson Doubleday, Mark Goodson, and you, too, Oscar de la Renta, Louis Auchincloss, Alex Liberman. The Grille Room attracted New York's thinkers, movers and shakers all immortalized in Lee Eisenberg's Esquire article.

1919 - Le Tricorne  Originally painted as a section of the curtain for the Serge Diaghilev's Ballet Russe over three weeks in London, the painting was was acquired by Phyllis Lambert for the Four Seasons. It depicts a Spanish bullring. It hung on the Four Seasons Wall for many years until Aby Rosen bought the building. He undertook a renovation of the restaurant and decided to remove the curtain in order to 'preserve' it in the middle of the night. Many people were concerned; articles were written; and the curtain ended up at the New York Historical Society.