Asheville art deco architecture - the Pearlman's Furniture Building

Asheville has one of the best collections of noteworthy art deco buildings in the country, many of them having been beautifully preserved and re-adapted to new uses (perhaps most famous is the Grove Arcade). Pictured here is the Pearlman's Furniture Building (now home to Kimmel & Associates, an executive search firm). The three-story, Art Moderne building at 78 Patton Street dates to 1940 and is one of many Deco stunners you'll see around town. The neo-Romanesque Public Service Building skyscraper, which slightly predates true Art Deco, is another notable structure in the city, as is the distinctive Asheville Flatiron building, which dates to 1926 (and has a giant sculpture of an iron in front of it!). Also check out the late 1920s Kress building, and Woolworth Walk gallery and art co-op, which occupies a vintage Woolworths store that was built in the 1930s - one of the most stunning deco structures in the city.