At about 9.5 inches high, the tapered, cloth-wrapped cylinders look a bit like miniature nuclear power cooling towers, and a textured silver-gray material that wraps them gives the speakers a Moderne look.
I'm also worried about a few of the industrial and commercial sites on the list, among them the dormant Fire Service Pumping Station in Coney Island, a Moderne gem from the 1930s by Irwin Chanin; the 1888 Excelsior Power Company Building in Lower Manhattan by William Grinnell; and the 1904 I.R.T. Powerhouse in Manhattan.
In 1926, Stackpole delivered the William A. Coleman Fountain to the city of Sacramento, a Moderne work (centrally located in what is now known as Cesar Chavez Park) which celebrated the city's completion of a difficult water filtration project.
Also in 1935, he released a selection of his memoirs, as Câteva amintiri ("Some Recollections"), and set in print his conferences for the state Radio Company: Dezvoltarea politică a României moderne ("The Political Development of Modern Romania").
For the Public Library downtown (1930), topped with a gilded hand holding aloft the torch of truth, Bertram G. Goodhue adopted a more pared-down if richly allusive Deco style, and in the Textile District, Robert Derrah produced a streamlined Moderne icon for Coca-Cola (1937), a bottling plant masquerading as a cream-and-scarlet ocean liner, complete with portholes, gangways and a flying bridge.
In 1949, the African-American painters Charles Alston and Hale Woodruff covered the lobby walls at a Los Angeles insurance company headquarters - a trapezoidal Moderne building designed by the African-American architect Paul Williams - with murals of early black Californians including explorers, cowboys and oil riggers.
In 1942, the architect Ely Jacques Kahn rebuilt 870 Park in an art moderne style for a prominent psychiatrist, the Vienna-born Richard H. Hoffmann.
The eighty-sixth floor of the Empire State Building had an Art Moderne observation lounge containing a panelled "writing room," for addressing postcards, a tearoom, and a "sunset lounge," whose Belgian-marble bar served five kinds of champagne, along with a house cocktail, the Empire State, made with Amstel bitters, orange bitters, French vermouth, Scotch, and dry gin.
Horst seen through Huene's eyes had the body of a young god in an Art Moderne context, and he may have posed for Huene's well-known picture of a couple in bathing suits on a diving board, which was actually a box on a Paris roof.
He enters in a white wig and black suit, walking away from a large Streamline Moderne house, a swirl of curves and portholes that sits on a hill like a luxury liner.
A chevalier moderne: Cécile Alduy raised to glory!
