One man’s mission to share with the world the fine art of cufflinks.
Each blog a different pair and each blog a different story. Read on in this series.....
Your scribe spends far too much time in airports….a necessary evil and a job hazard. In aviation there are some shocking examples of civic architecture but in some pockets there are outstanding examples that can take you back to the golden era of travel. Some of my favourites are modernist and others are pure art deco magnificence. La Guardia, Newark and Idlewild’s (later JKF) were show case buildings that took the traveller on a first class journey from the moment of arrival at the terminal.
The “Marine Air Terminal” La Guardia Airport
The cuff link came to fore during the fabulous art deco decades from the 1930’s onward. All fields in the fabric of life took on a renewed purpose and vigour….from your tea pot or your car or the jewellery you wore all the way to the modern office buildings covered in chrome; life for everyone changed during this golden era.
Today’s links come from a thrift shop in Louisville Kentucky….a town with its own art deco airfield architecture….Bowman Field.
Bowman Airfield with Lockheed in taxi mode.......
Found in the corner of a dust covered glass display cabinet in a Louisville thrift shop, these little art deco gems have accompanied me through some of the great airports of the world.
Gold plate art deco links circa 1930, worn with Gianni Versace silk tie and a tailor made cotton shirt.
Til later
Onward
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