Saturday 7 May 2011

Skyline of New York: a tableau vivant at the Society of Beaux-Arts Architects Ball, 1931, featuring the architects of New York dressed as the buildings they designed. Left to right: A. Stewart Walker as the Fuller Building, Leonard Schultze as the Waldorf-Astoria, Ely Jacques Kahn as the Squibb Building, William Van Alen as the Chrysler Building, Ralph Walker as the Wall Street Building and Joseph Freedlander as the Museum of the City of New York. (See Rem Koolhaas (1994) Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan, Monacelli Press)

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