Art Deco 42nd Street East to West

With Anthony W. Robins

[Virtual tour] Join historian and author Anthony W. Robins for an in-depth virtual tour of Midtown Manhattan’s major boulevard of Deco skyscrapers, showcasing some of the city’s most famous monuments. These include: Raymond Hood’s red-and-white-striped Daily News Building; the Chanin Building with its Rene Chambellan-designed abstract ornamentation; and the peerless Chrysler Building, the city’s (and the world’s) most famous Art Deco skyscraper. We will also see: Tudor City, built just before Art Deco swept away the notion of borrowing from Europe’s past to design America’s future; the often-overlooked block between First and Second Avenues with three surprising Deco creations; two more remarkable Raymond Hood skyscrapers; and a fabulous interior by Ely Jacques Kahn. Mr. Robins is the author of the award-winning book “New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture” (SUNY Press 2017).

MAS Virtual Tours run 60 to 90 minutes and are not recorded for later viewing.

Registration is now closed.

Wednesday, November 17
6:00 PM

Virtual Tour

Tickets:
Member: $15
Non-member: $25

Lobby in the Chrysler Building. Photo: Wikimedia Commons, Tony Hisgett. Modifications: photo cropped.