Chrysler Wrigley_patent Fits a cigar lounge

Fits a cigar lounge

its lantern room hovering above the shoals like a held breath

The Eames Patent Blueprint — Molded Plywood Chair Design Specifications is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

and the slow gravity of money rising up Broad Street like incense

charting Low Library's dome and the Beaux-Arts symmetry McKim

Chrysler Wrigley_patent Fits a cigar loungeChrysler a jazz age tribute to Walter Chrysler's stainless steel crown, its terraced sunbursts and eagle gargoyles photographed against the Manhattan haze in that brief 1930 moment when it reigned, however briefly, as the tallest thing humankind had ever bolted to the sky. About the Source Bella Frye sources NYC artifacts from American photographic archives, postcard collections, and period broadsides the press photographers, postcard publishers, and