Chrysler Building

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Architecture · 1928–1930 · New York · Americas

Its stainless-steel spire made it the world's tallest building for eleven months

Author

William Van Alen

Style

Art Deco — Machine-age luxury: geometry, gleaming metal and the stepped silhouette

Century

20th century

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Made around the same time (±30 years)

• 1928–1931 Villa Savoye — Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret · Modern architecture (International Style) · Poissy, near Paris
• 1931 The Persistence of Memory — Salvador Dalí · Surrealism · Portlligat, Catalonia
• 1922–1931 Christ the Redeemer — Paul Landowski, Heitor da Silva Costa · Art Deco · Corcovado, Rio de Janeiro
• 1915 Black Square — Kazimir Malevich · Russian avant-garde · Moscow
• 1907–1908 The Kiss — Gustav Klimt · Art Nouveau · Vienna
• 1907 Les Demoiselles d'Avignon — Pablo Picasso · Cubism · Paris, Bateau-Lavoir
• 1928–1930 Narkomfin Building — Moisei Ginzburg, Ignaty Milinis · Constructivism · Moscow
• 1928–1940 The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov · Moscow

What was happening in the world

• 1914–1918 World War I
• 1914 Opening of the Panama Canal
• 1915 Armenian genocide
• 1916 Sykes–Picot Agreement
• 1917 October Revolution
• 1917–1922 Russian Civil War