“New York Art Deco: A Guide…” book talk and signing, sponsored by the Art Deco Society of California (Oakland).

Reservations required. Sponsored by the Municipal Art Society. Information and registration: 212-935-3960. A pleasant stroll along Central Park West for a closer look at the buildings that form Manhattan’s major residential skyline. We’ll see the great twin-towered skyscraper apartment buildings – the Century, the Majestic and the El Dorado – and other multi-colored jazz-age fantasies […]

A tour of Art Deco from Murray Hill to Gramercy Park, sponsored by Untapped Cities.

Sponsored by the Art Deco Society of New York and SUNY Press; reservations required – click here. Tickets $25 ($20 for ADSNY members), include a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception. The Chrysler Building, the Waldorf-Astoria, Rockefeller Center– these are among the hundreds of Art Deco monuments that during the 1920s and ‘30s helped create the […]

A tour of Art Deco from Murray Hill to Gramercy Park, sponsored by Untapped Cities.

Reservations required. Tour of the Woolworth Building lobby, closed to the public for more than a decade and now open again. The tour includes a detailed look at the building’s unmatched polychromatic terra-cotta exterior, and an in-depth exploration of the lobby and its wealth of ornament, including hidden corners and staircases — plus a special visit to the mezzanine level for an up-close view of its extraordinary mosaic ceiling.