It was 1931--the skyscraper era. At a ball in New York City, architects dressed as buildings they had designed:
L-R: A. Stewart Walker (Fuller Building), Leonard Schultze (Waldorf-Astoria), Ely Jacques Kahn (Squibb Building), William Van Alen (Chrysler Building), Ralph Walker (1 Wall Street), D.E.Ward (Metropolitan Tower), Joseph H. Freelander (Museum of New York).
Link | Photo: Ely Jacques Kahn, Architect by Jewel Stern and John A. Stewart
The Chrysler Building wins, as it should.
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