As a follow up to yesterday's post, let's look today at an iconic Art Deco building in Bucharest, the Palatul Telefoanelor (Telephone Palace).
Located on one of the main avenues in the city centre, Calea Victoriei, the 52.5 metre building was designed on behalf of SART by the Dutch-born Romanian architect, painter (as an artist, he did drawings of famous dancers such as Vaslav Nijinsky, Isadora Duncan and Anna Pavlova) and stage designer Edmond Van Saanen Algi, together with the American architects Louis Weeks and Walter Froy and was built between 1931 and 1933.
I was lucky enough to spot in an antiquarian shop an old postcard of the building useful to make a comparison with what the building looks now.
The building has also got an Art Deco door with an unusual concave door handle that reminds a lot of a telephone speaker.
My research trip to Romania was made possible through a journalistic grant from the Institutul Cultural Român (ICR - Romanian Cultural Institute), Bucharest.
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