A similar exhibit, "Futurama," drew crowds into the enigmatic, streamlined cliff-face of the General Motors pavilion, the fair's most popular attraction and a high-water mark in Art Moderne design.
The landmark NBC studios, on the northeast corner of Sunset and Vine, were an ideal realization of Streamlined Moderne design.
Architect Ana Henton is accustomed to demanding clients: restaurateurs, theater owners and even a college fraternity eager to ditch its stripper pole in favor of Streamline Moderne design.
Although the final 'e' on Moderne suggests a design style that is more early 20th century than early 21st century, the restaurant's name pays oblique homage to the longstanding Modern Furniture Barn (a k a Yellow Barn), the last occupant of the site and an establishment that brought modern design to an area then known more for country colonial.
These names will be announced at the Winter Banquet of the Friends of the Princeton University Library on Saturday, February 2, 2008 and to the general public on February 4. In order to market the moderne interior design aesthetic on the rise in the 1920s, French publishers produced limited-edition portfolios using a traditional technique--known in France as pochoir.
The art moderne terminal, designed by the theater architect Thomas Lamb, was a swing-era reproach to the fusty grandeur of Penn Station across the street.
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.
His father, Robert, was a hotelier who brought his son up north and south of the border, including at Morecambe, Lancashire, where he managed the celebrated Midland hotel, a jazz-moderne delight designed by the brilliantly eclectic Oliver Hill with sculpture by Eric Gill and glorious sunsets over the Irish sea.
His father, Robert, was a hotelier who brought his son up north and south of the border, including at Morecambe, Lancashire, where he managed the celebrated Midland hotel, a jazz-moderne delight designed by the brilliantly eclectic Oliver Hill with sculpture by Eric Gill and glorious sunsets over the Irish sea.
It is possible, for example, to imagine the fascination Dolores Del Rio had for her husband, Cedric Gibbons, the Hollywood set designer, by looking at the sleek, Moderne vanity he designed for her in the 1930's for the dressing room of their Santa Monica house.
The E52 Morris and Sophie Chang Building, which is in the Streamline Moderne style, was designed in 1938 by Shreve, Lamb, and Harmon, the architects of the Empire State Building in New York City.
