Detail View: Design Library Image Collection: Empire State Building

Accession Number: 
194219
Order Title: 
Archivision Addition Module EIGHT--6,304 images
Type of View: 
partialView
View Title: 
Restored (2010) ground floor lobby ceiling murals with gold and aluminum leaf
Date of View: 
6/14/2011
Image description: 
The ceiling mural is over 15,000 sq ft of canvas with over 115,000 sheets of aluminum leaf. Paint, glaze and gold leaf were also used (the same materials as in 1931).
Image Rights: 
¿ Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
Source Institution: 
Archivision, Inc.
Collection: 
Addition Module EIGHT
Culture: 
American
Work Types: 
buildings; multistory buildings; high-rise buildings; skyscrapers
Work Types: 
Architecture; commercial / industrial structures; office buildings
Preferred Title: 
Empire State Building
Agent Display: 
Shreve, Lamb & Harmon (American architectural firm, renamed 1929)
Date: 
2010 (restoration)
Materials: 
steel; Indiana limestone; granite; marble; aluminum
Technique: 
construction (assembling)
Measurement: 
1250 ft (height, roof); 1472 ft (height, with spire)
Locations: 
New York, New York, United States
Location Type: 
(site)
Style/Period: 
Twentieth century
Style/Period: 
Art Deco
Classification: 
Architecture