[LouisVanDerWright]

Originally Posted by Mr Downtown

Undoubtedly many of you will want to ask Santa for the new book Art Deco Chicago: Designing Modern America. Interestingly, Target seems to have the best price.



It's a beautiful book, and more than just the usual catalog of stunning buildings. Focusing on 101 key objects, it makes the case that the industrial and product design coordinated in Chicago for International Harvester, Zenith, Sears, Motorola, etc.—and the Century of Progress—was what brought Moderne design out of Parisian jewelry boxes and into American households and streetscapes. (I contributed three of the essays.)

Chicago History Museum has just opened an accompanying exhibit.


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"Three blind Mies" for SOM is not something Stern came up with. It goes back many decades, to the firm's origins. I've seen it attributed to Frank Lloyd Wright.

Awesome, sending to wife.