Top Of The World-the Peace Hotel Roof

Why visit the Peace Hotel roof, which is just 11 stories above ground? You be the judge. Read More

Shanghai Art Deco Congress-Day Five-The Peace Hotel

Shanghai is too rich in Art Deco to have an obvious #1 Art Deco building. But if not the Peace Hotel, then what? Read More

Art Deco Separated at Birth #13 – Peace Hotel Entrance & Lounge

Two views of Shanghai’s spectacular Peace Hotel. From 1997, the original lobby check-in area (you can just make out a luggage cart at lower right) and from 2015 where the original lobby is now a lounge. Looks like the clock did not survive … Read More

Shanghai Art Deco Congress 2015 – Day Four

Shanghai has lots of Art Deco, and the area with the most is the former French Concession. Read More

Shanghai Art Deco Congress 2015 – Day Three

The Shanghai Aviation Association building was not easy to find but worth the trip. Read More

Shanghai Art Deco Congress 2015 – Day Two

For day two, I thought I’d stick to the official schedule but the call of Art Deco intervened. The Congress was held at the Peninsula Hotel, conveniently located on the Bund. (The Bund is an area of old Shanghai that runs … Read More

Shanghai Art Deco Congress 2015 – Day One

The amount of Art Deco to see in the world’s most populous city made it impossible to take in everything but we sure tried! Read More

Shanghai Art Deco – Part 3

There is enough Art Deco in Shanghai to costume weeks of your time. But the city has many other things to offer. Read More