That was the perfect self-gift to be made to an obsolete, “legacy” (vintage?) guy like me: Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration, and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties, by Patricia Bayer.

It’s much more than a coffee-table book, it’s a delight! Highly recommended to those who watched Agatha Christie’s Poirot for the Art Deco scenery.
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There is one main reason I keep watching and watching again the 50-min episodes of the “Agatha Christie’s Poirot” TV series featuring David Suchet, whenever available: I love the Art Deco architecture, and many such episodes show such a building fictitiously labeled “Whitehaven Mansions”, when the actual building does exist in Charterhouse Square, Smithfield, London, under the name of “Florin Court”!
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