Radio City Music Hall is an Art Deco jewel. Its most notable—but somehow little-mentioned—features are the three metal and enamel roundels around the corner from the entrance on the 50th Street façade ...
The Art Deco Murals of Hildreth Meière by Catherine Coleman Brawer and Kathleen Murphy Skolnik is an enlightening and desperately needed book. Most people today have never head of Meière, though ...
Refurbished 56-storey, art deco 1931 building – once home to an investment bank – is tipped to open with 566 condominiums and 174,000 feet of retail space next year In the heart of New York’s Lower ...
''It's hideous!" fumes my friend V., warming up to one of his favorite rants: the unbearable ugliness of the Sears on Main Street. "It's right there on the light-rail line! At the entrance to the ...
As the cultural map of a city shifts, little-known buildings emerge from the background. One fresh example is on a Valencia Street block long shadowed by the Central Freeway, an overscale Art Deco ...
In the Financial District, the conversion of One Wall Street—a landmark structure (well, part of it, but we’ll get to that) designed by prolific Art Deco architect Ralph Walker—has been underway for ...
Market Street (Deco Ghetto), San Francisco: While riding on a vintage streetcar down Market Street on the way to the Deco Ghetto, thoughts turn to the glamour of that era and silver-screen stars such ...
Illegal street art pops up all over the city — on highway signs, on buildings — but now a Miami hotspot is giving amateur artists a fun and legal way to get their graffiti on. Deco took a trip to ...