From everyday icons like the Sunbeam toaster and Schwinn bicycle to familiar beacons of the city skyline like the Board of Trade and Palmolive Buildings, Chicago was a national and international leader in the design that came to be known as Art Deco. The new publication Art Deco Chicago, to be published in Fall 2018 as a companion to the exhibition Modern by Design: Chicago Streamlines America opening at the Chicago History Museum on October 18, includes five essays offering new interpretations by scholars, curators, and collectors of twentieth-century modernism and the Art Deco era.

This program features a talk by the volume's editor Robert Bruegmann, a historian of architecture, landscape, preservation, urban development, and the built environment.

Registration is required by Thursday, November 29.