New York Art Deco: Birds, Beasts & Blooms: From the Smallest of Detail to the Grandest of the Buildings

With Writer Eric P. Nash and photographer Andrew Garn

This will be both an In-Person and Online Lecture. The lecture will be followed by a Book-Signing.

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Eric Nash and Andrew Garn will discuss their recently published book, New York Art Deco: Birds, Beasts & Blooms considered to be one of the definitive books on New York Deco, exploring Art Deco from the smallest of details to the grandest of buildings. During their presentation Mr. Nash and the acclaimed photographer Andrew Garn will share some of the Art Deco images and buildings in New York City. The City is arguably the world’s Art Deco capital, and they will describe some of its striking and still iconic towers that were early expressions of the Art Deco style writ large—most famously the Empire State and Chrysler buildings. 

Art Deco is drawn in steel, in tile, in brass, in bronze, and in stone upon great buildings and small—and in the details, as so engagingly shown here. Such as the extraordinary Fred F. French Building at 551 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, a treasure house of the form whose ornate lobby is simply stunning.  Just some of the other head-turning images  include the Grand Concourse in the Bronx or the  striking facade of an apartment house in Brooklyn Heights. The lecture will feature  the legendary and the little known, through all-new photography by Mr. Garn. The book celebrates Art Deco New York as never seen before.

The book can purchased in person at the lecture or online 

General Admission: $10 

Advance registration is required.

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