And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, September 12, 2025
Incredible Entrance: 1926-30 Elevator door in the Chrysler Building by architect William Van Alen
And today you get a brushed steel door...
ReplyDeleteThe ones in the Empire State Building are not bad either (if I remember correctly). Back when architecture added to our culture, not embarrassed it.
ReplyDeletethe ESB is simpler and used streamlined construction techniques, that affecting appearance. the chrysler is incredible.
DeleteImpressed if lasted four years. Today it would not last four Days before it was defaced.
ReplyDeletedeck-oh!
ReplyDeleteLate Art Nuevo, amazing piece of metal work. Lovely.
ReplyDeleteRode those elevators as a kid. My Dad's office was on the 58th floor. His office windows opened onto the balconies.
ReplyDeleteSpin Drift