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49th Street Entrance; "The Joy of Life" by Attilio Piccirilli, 1937

Title:

One Rockefeller Plaza

Alternate Title:

Time-Life Building

View:

49th Street Entrance; "The Joy of Life" by Attilio Piccirilli, 1937

Related Work:

part of Rockefeller Center

Creators:

Attilio Piccirilli (American sculptor, 1866-1945 ); Carl Paul Jennewein (American sculptor, 1890-1978); Lee Oskar Lawrie (American sculptor, 1877-1961); Raymond M. Hood (American architect, 1881-1934)

Date:

ca. 1932-1937 (creation)

Style/Period:

Art Deco; Twentieth century

Location:

site: New York, New York, United States

Location Note:

1 Rockefeller Plaza

GPS:

+40.758039-73.978849

Culture:

American

Measurements:

608,000 ft2 (area)

Materials:

Indiana limestone; gilding

Work Types:

buildings; multistory buildings; high-rise buildings; skyscrapers; buildings; office buildings

Description:

This was the original Time- Life Building, before the publishing company moved west to 1271 Avenue of the Americas. An original tenant was General Dynamics, for whom the building was briefly named. The large wooden sculptures by Carl Milles on the west wall of its lobby feature a woodsman in the middle piece of the triptych, above which a mechanical bird chirps every hour. The original bird was a clarino, or Mexican thrush, that belonged to Bronx Zoo president Fairfield Osborn. NBC engineers were dispatched to Osborn’s house on East Sixty-First Street to record the clarino’s singing for posterity. (Source: Rockefeller Center [website]; http://www.rockefellercenter.com/)

View Description:

Polychromed and gilded limestone bas-relief. The subject features Bacchus and wine as the joy of life.

Classification:

Architecture and City Planning

Technique:

carving (processes); construction (assembling)

Image Rights:

Vendor ID:

1A1-RH-RC-F2

MDID Identifier:

4615

Archivision Set:

Archivision Base Collection

Collection:

Archivision Base Module

Record created:

June 7, 2018

Last modified:

Nov. 1, 2018

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