General Electric Building

Art Deco brilliance on Lexington Avenue — this fine art photograph of the General Electric Building captures one of Midtown Manhattan's most inventive and exuberant skyscrapers in its full glory, a tower that manages to be both deeply serious architecture and enormous fun at the same time. Completed in 1931 and designed by Cross & Cross, the building was originally the headquarters of RCA Victor and sits immediately behind St. Bartholomew's Church on Park Avenue, its red brick and terracotta facade designed in deliberate harmony with the church's warm Byzantine stonework below. The building rises 50 storeys to its extraordinary crown — a cluster of radiating terracotta spires and lightning bolt forms that reference the electrical power of its original tenant, a Gothic fantasy reimagined for the machine age. This photograph takes in the full building: the warm red brick of the shaft, the setbacks and vertical lines that draw the eye upward, and the spectacular crown catching the light above. One of the great Art Deco towers of New York, and one of the most rewarding buildings to simply stand and look at. Printed on Fuji Crystal Archive paper with optional acrylic glass or Alu-Dibond mounting for a gallery-quality finish.