Just before Thanksgiving, Stephaine Murg at UnBeige reported on the removal of Hello Kitty and friends from the Lever House. The scaled up toys created by Tom Sachs, had occupied the garden outside the landmark building since the Summer of 2008. Murg hoped that the sculptures which were forklifted off site and shuttled down Park Avenue, would be on their way to "glass-walled International Style office buildings in need of cheering up."
Since I am less convinced that Sanrio is a solution to the problems of modernity, I thought it would be fun to look back at the Lever House during the time of its original completion in 1952. Or is nostalgia worse than kitsch?
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