Chicago is full of wonderful Art Deco, I just snapped a lot of photos. I realized that sharing small close up images is better than the large whole building.
Sometimes you want both most of building, because it’s so beautiful. Carbide and Carbon building.
I love the details here so much, of course it’s hard to see until one looks at a close up of a photograph.
Of course the best way to attract attention to the tower is using gold, real gold leaf. I took this picture in the late afternoon with the sun shining on the tower which makes it all shimmer like gold.
This fabulous Art Deco fountain is next to the Chicago Board of Trade building. Wow! Funny the man sitting in the background was confused as to why I was taking pictures. I just said: this is an amazing piece of Art Deco – I think I just confused him more.
Detail. I wonder if this is made from Mallechort, the same material used on the Oviatt Building here in LA. It looks like silver but it doesn’t tarnish.
I’m sure many a cattle future were determined in this building. Remember the Chicago Stockyards? (sort of like Coalinga off the 5 Freeway in central California – just much much larger). What an amazing example of a graphic Art Deco bull.
Riverside Plaza, as seen from the wonderful Architecture River cruise. Once again, I couldn’t see the images well until I cropped the photos.
A small portion of the enormous Chicago Mercantile exchange.
I don’t remember the name of this building, it is on Michigan Ave. in the Magnificent mile.
Art Deco interiors are wonderful as well. Bank America building. I got yelled at cuz I shot a photo looking into the actual bank floor, this is not it.
Look at the mailbox!! It looks like an Art Deco building, not like the one it’s in though. Notice the lights in the high-rise? That lets you know where the elevator cars are. Function and beauty working very well together.
Back in the Rookery, the elevator lobby was updated in the 20s to Art Deco style. Wonderful lamp as well as the elevator doors that are decorated with birds. Anything to get the idea of Rookery to stick.
This one even has owls!
How cool is this! Also in the Rookery, on the third floor, a perfect frame for the elevator buttons.
I’m breaking up my Chicago images, there was so much to see and to share.
Leah