A rhapsody in chrome, 75 years young International Herald Tribune | May 27, 2005| | . Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

Michael J. Lewis
International Herald Tribune
05-27-2005
Most buildings acquire a certain musty ridiculousness after a generation, like the clothes one wore in high school (although they cannot be hidden as easily in the back of the closet). But the Chrysler Building, 75 this week, does not seem ridiculous; it does not even seem old.In an odd way, it is as contemporary a building as New York City has, the product of a society that was blissfully throwing off rules and discovering itself, of a modern America being born. Every work of art bears the stamp of the age that made it, but some do so ...

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