Plate G4.no3: The Beresford Hotel – Sauchiehall Street (Glasgow)

What a style, Art Deco was. A style which just seemed to drop from the sky. Like Mod, clearly there were rules – but what were the rules, other than the rules only those in the know knew? Elusive, unique, utterly seductive.
This example persists where many others in Glasgow evaporated, like dreams on waking. Built in 1938 to accommodate visitors to Glasgow for the Empire Exhibition, it was known as Glasgow’s first skyscraper. That Glasgow might have morphed into a more exact replica of Chicago-meets-New York, was not to be, however. Shame – perhaps if it had, the city wouldn’t have been raped so, as it was a few decades later.
The Beresford Hotel remains then, a grateful testament to a Glasgow that once dreamt, dreams…