• Architectural Sculptures

    Art Deco rat

    On the 1927 Greybar building near Grand Central Station on 42nd Street there’s a large canopy over the entrance, one interesting and odd decoration are the Art Deco styled rats climbing up the supports for the canopy; Besides the rats, if you notice at about the one o’clock position above the rat there’s a rosette where the adjacent support enters the wall, but if you look closely you can see this rosette isn’t a typical rosette flower at all, it’s actually a rosette made up of eight rat heads arranged in a uniform geometric circle! A pretty clever and interesting little design, the rats and the cones are representative of…