7. The Factory

New York, the 1960s.On the fifth floor of 231 East 47th Street in Manhattan, the lights in Andy Warhol's studio never go out. Silver walls, the sharp smell of screen-printing ink, the Velvet Underground on permanent rotation. Artists, musicians, drag queens, poets and outsiders drift in unannounced and leave without saying goodbye.The Factory is film set, laboratory and endless party rolled into one. A refuge for those who don't fit anywhere else, where glamour and fragility share the same space and identities shift, blur and collide."I can never tell where the artificial ends and the real begins," says Warhol.This is where his art is born: in the noise, the chaos, the energy of a place where people become images and images become legend.