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Patrick Owen
40 St David's Drive
Doncaster DN5 8NF
Tel 01302 564492
patrick@furniturefollies.co.uk
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The Chrysler Building
This is Furniture Follies tribute to architect William Van Alen's 1930
art-deco masterpiece in New York, 77 stories and 1046 feet tall, briefly
the
tallest building in the world.
It is an accurate reproduction to a scale of approximately 1:150 and by
day
you can marvel at the complex design, crowned by the spectacular
stainless
steel spire with its tiers of elliptical arches glittering in the
sunlight.
But the building really comes alive at night when all the hundreds of
windows are illuminated by the internal LED lights. The triangular windows
of the spire can be lit independently.
Walter Chrysler, founder of the Chrysler Car Corporation, was the owner
of
the building, and Van Alen incorporated various automotive symbols such
as
the winged radiator caps and the eagle hood ornaments that help make
this
such an iconic and distinctive landmark, known and loved the world over.
Our model is made mainly in maple, on a black granite base and features
solid pewter castings for the ornamental details. It stands 2
metres tall
on a base 45cm x 45cm.

The actual building has one corner cut off the lower stories, presumably
to
fit the available site, but I feel sure that Van Alen's original concept
would have been symmetrical and this is how we have chosen to portray
it.
Less than a year after its completion, the Chrysler building was dwarfed
by
the much taller and bulkier Empire State Building (1250 feet and 86
floors)
and this is our next project, currently being built.
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