Art Deco Marble Facade Ornaments. But the façade is richly decorated with ornaments albeit not overly so. The chrysler building is an art deco style skyscraper located in the turtle bay neighborhood on the east side of manhattan new york city at the intersection of 42nd street and lexington avenue near midtown manhattan at 1 046 feet 318 9 m the structure was the world s tallest building for 11 months before it was surpassed by the empire state building in 1931. This handsome french art deco bronze of an athlete is signed o.
Art deco movement in decorative arts and architecture in europe and the united states during the 1920s and 30s. This handsome french art deco bronze of an athlete is signed o.
Inside is a marble veneer gray with black vertical lines and a black silhouette on one wall of the building s shape.
September 2012 one cannot help but notice the contrast. Art deco sometimes referred to as deco is a style of visual arts architecture and design that first appeared in france just before world war i. Ornament that is geometric or stylized from representational forms. Bronze sculpture owl on marble base art deco style statue figurine animal figure bauhaus artwork cubism gallerygreengold.
