Landmarks: New developments at Kodak's art-deco HQ

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Archiseek / Ireland / News / 2002 / May 5 2002: Landmarks: New developments at Kodak's art-deco HQ

The year 1932 saw the death of George Eastman, the founder of the pioneering Kodak empire that produced the Box Brownie, the photographic equivalent of the Model T Ford. The same year the company opened its Irish headquarters, on Rathmines Road, Dublin, using techniques and styling with which few in the city would have been familiar. The Kodak corporation was making its name with chic art-deco cameras styled by the "dean of industrial design" Walter Dorwin Teague. It seemed natural that the new headquarters should conform to this exciting new design school.

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