Wall Paneling & Wainscoting · Art Deco
Lobby of the Chrysler Building, New York
The lobby of the Chrysler Building in New York, with marble walls, chrome details, a row of elevators with inlaid doors and an elaborately painted ceiling.
Design characteristics
The Chrysler Building lobby combines rich red marble walls, metal trim, indirect lighting and a ceiling mural into a single, theatrical space. The elevator bank, with its inlaid wood doors, is set into the marble like a row of jewelry cases. For residential design, the lobby suggests how stone, metal and veneered wood can be combined in a bar, entry or powder room for a Deco effect.
Classification
- Style
- Art Deco
- Category
- Wall Paneling & Wainscoting
- Material
- Marble
- Motifs
- Stepped ziggurat, Veneer paneling
- Photograph
- 2011
- Photographer
- Tony Hisgett from Birmingham, UK
- Evidence
- Photograph of a documented interior or object
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons
Architectural context
Stepped geometry, fluting and figured veneers. Europe and the United States · c. 1920–1940.
