New and Old #195

Friday roundup and commentary

“America was supposed to be Art Deco,” Fashionably Late Takes, Megan Gafford, September 10, 2024

Gafford is responding to an earlier essay by that title, but adds some of her own commentary. This is a neat observation:

One of the most striking features of Art Deco skyscrapers is that so much ornamentation is at the very top. The patterned crescents and ch…