Word: deskey
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...like any good magazine article, it has not just a beginning and middle, but also an end. One of the last things you see is a 1932 replica of a never-built luxury liner by Norman Bel Geddes, who - along with the likes of Gilbert Rohde and Donald Deskey - formed a rising group of distinctively American designers. Bel Geddes' model is the same size as the Normandie at the show's entrance, but sleeker and more futuristic - a metaphor for the passing of cultural leadership to New York...
...portrait of Lenin. Okrent is also supremely funny on the subject of S.L. (Roxy) Rothafel, creator of superabundant picture palaces along Broadway, those Moorish-boorish Odeons, who was the man chosen to guide development of Radio City Music Hall. Once he was in the job, fate teamed Roxy with Deskey--Donald Deskey, the great evangel of Art Deco who had won a competition to design the Music Hall. Dedicated to all things Moderne, Deskey is the man who saved us from Rothafel's stated dream for the Music Hall: "Portuguese Rococo...