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...quickly as rent for a Shanghai apartment. In the end, we finally settled on a unit in a 1930s apartment building built during Shanghai's last great boom. Once, the Grosvenor House was one of the most prestigious buildings in town, known for its sweeping garden and Art Deco touches. Today it's been eclipsed by the behemoth modern villas that dot the city. But for us, it's home?until it, too, becomes too rich...
...also Plymouths, Dodges and DeSotos, mounting a challenge to automotive giants Ford and General Motors. Chrysler, wrote TIME, "had become one of the chief U.S. industrialists." But he was not through building. In this same year he announced plans for the 77-story Chrysler Building, whose graceful Art Deco structure remains one of the signature profiles of the Manhattan skyline...
With her pupil-less eyes, brass breastplate and art-deco winged headpiece, Promethea looks like a combination of Wonder Woman and a 1930s Chrysler hood ornament. Set in a world very like our own, but slightly more technologically advanced - they have hover cars and science villains like "Jellyhead" - Promethea appears when Sophie Bangs, a poetically precocious teenager, channels her from out of the world of imagination. During the first twelve issues Promethea discovers she is the latest in a long line of Prometheas, all of whom materialize through works of an artist. Mixing typical superhero fisticuffs with darker themes...
WEARABLE ART The old sultanate of Cirebon, a port west of central Java, promotes itself as Indonesia's seafood capital; another moniker for the city is Kota Udan, or Prawn City. Yet this coastal town with the distinctive art deco train station should think bigger?and brighter. This is the place to buy batik, the art form you can bring back home on your back. Batik is available all over Indonesia, but purists say the best comes from Cirebon...
...need to judge Metro’s authenticity. The mosaic-tiled floor, big windows and lots of light wood are charming and airy, a contrast to the more moody Cottonwood Café that used to occupy the space. Deep red pleather booths and chairs are cute, but the Art Deco lighting (in addition to Art Deco everything) is too new-looking and the “tin” ceiling and the huge mirrors are obviously and poorly “antiqued.” The overall result is forced, too taut and sterile to feel comfy and really French...