The Tiffany Building at 727 fifth avenue was designed by Cross & Cross, developed by Tiffany & Co. and was completed in 1940. The international fame of this expensive store far exceeds the architectural quality of its building.There are only three non-wearable things of great distinction here: its wonderful clock above its Fifth Avenue entrance; the great ingenuity of Gene Moore's displays in the building's ground floor windows that set an unequaled standard on Fifth Avenue for decades and legitimized its reputation as the city's most stylish boulevard; and its contextual relationship to the far superior Art Deco low-rise Bonwit Teller store on the remainder of the Fifth Avenue blockfront that was razed to make way for Trump Tower. #1940s #art_deco #clock #fifth_avenue #lowrise #manhattan #Tiffany__Co #trump #trump_tower
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