Showing posts with label 1930's. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1930's. Show all posts
(I love this chair. It was just hanging out...)
Next is my favorite residential building in San Francisco. If I could choose to live anywhere in the Bay Area, it would be here. This Streamline Deco masterpiece was featured prominently in the 1947 Humphrey Bogart film " Dark Passage." On the facades of this building are three large silver relief-friezes. The friezes are stunning; the first showing California as a beautiful woman under a rainbow. The next frieze shows a European settler bravely exploring the Bay in a majestic old world sailboat. The third frieze depicts a stylized man, holding the world in his hand, stepping over the bay bridge with airplanes sailing above his head. I really love the prominent usage of airplanes as a design feature in the friezes, to indicate man's progress and ambition., and the exciting advances in technology bringing man out of the old world and into a life of leisure and luxury! Architect: Irvin Goldstine, 1937
Maybe if I just close my eyes and imagine buying the penthouse, currently for sale, I will find a way. Ommm...
I have to post a few pics of the interior of the penthouse. They are from the listing agents website...
Anyone have a cool $1,500,000 burning a hole in your pocket?
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