Sunday we went into San Francisco again, this time for more architecture, first the Art Deco guided tour and then the Victorian tour. The Bay area is studded with some great old art deco structures, office buildings, skyscrapers, but also movie theatres, and more. Our walk Sunday focused on the downtown skyscrapers.
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The grand-daddy of them all, so to speak, was Timothy Pfleuger's Pacific Telephone
and Telegraph building, now under lengthy restoration; note the torchiere figures... |
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And torchiere figures on this contemporary office building: our guide called this
"deco echo" |
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| The Shell Building |
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| Above the entry; this is Shell Oil, I think, not Rococo |
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Massive Stackpole sculpture on the San Francisco Stock
Exchange, another Pfleuger design; he engaged Diego
Rivera to do the 10th floor murals (which we saw later,
in 2014) |
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| Russ Building |
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| Not a skyscraper, but definitely deco |
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| My personal favorite, 111 Sutter, the Hunter-Dulin building |
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| Entry |
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| Lobby ceiling |
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The offices of Spade and Archer, Private Investigators, were located in the
Hunter-Dulin building: there's Sam with clients Joel Cairo, Brigid
O'Shaughnessy, and Kaspar Gutman; who will take the fall? The first
great American film noir... "I hope they don't hang you, precious, by that
sweet neck. Yes, angel, I'm gonna send you over. The chances are you'll
get off with life. That means if you're a good girl, you'll be out in 20 years.
I'll be waiting for you. If they hang you, I'll always remember you. " |
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| And 450 Sutter |
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| Exquisite lobby ceiling |
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| Detail; Mayan motif throughout |
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