Max Chavez

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📍Chicago Preservationist and architectural historian 🏳️‍🌈 ART DECO WORLD available for pre-order: https://linktr.ee/maxechavez

A plate of chilaquiles topped with egg, onion, and avocado next a mimosa.
A plate with beef tacos covered in salsa, Mexican rice, and corn.
A plate of sliced roast pork belly, a scoop of white rice, and a ramekin of green and red dipping sauce.
A book cover showing vivid Art Deco theater painted in pink, orange, yellow, and blue. Above the theater in the sky are large yellow letters reading ART DECO WORLD.
An Art Deco lunchroom dotted with tables and chairs. Above, there are illuminated light fixtures.
An Art Deco train station with a central rounded arch and a clock in the center. In front of the train station are a fountain and gardens.
An extremely ornate and large Baroque door surround.
A stone modernist building located on a corner. Between the windows, there are spandrels with murals on them.
An Art Nouveau department store building with a rounded corner.
A three corner building painted pink. At the corner is a tall tower with a rounded dome.
A row of two story buildings painted in yellow, blue, and peach
An elaborate stone building with a dome above the entrance, located on a corner
A chapel with a high ceiling, covered in dense layers of gilded Baroque trim.
A giant grey skyscraper that ends in a pointed triangular slope. On the elevations are window openings that look like random holes punched through the surface.
A tall white skyscraper with an Art Deco silhouette.
Red Art Deco corner building with a dramatic, swooping entryway and vertically emphasized piers.
A large Brutalist building with a protruding, angled wall extending from its center.
A large sculptural work along a wall depicting human figures and symbols.
A market entrance with the lower halves of mannequins.
A pink-tiled lunch counter with signs reading “Los Tacos Michigan.”
Plates of carnitas tacos next to bowls of salsas, onions, and limes.
A hand holding a spoon in a bowl of menudo with toppings and orange juice on the table.
A dramatic Art Deco interior with a large dome. The walls are covered in stone and glowing, brassy accents be seen throughout.
A Moderne movie theater with a blade sign and affixed signage that read “TERESA.”
A three-bay Art Deco apartment building with a stepped arch entryway.
Art Deco doorway with decorative light fixture, gates, and window bars.
A tall streamlined apartment building with two rounded wings.
A tall glass skyscraper with an Art Deco silhouette next to a small high-rise with a temple-like crown with a large open plaza in front.
A stepped Art Deco archway leading to another rounded door. Above, letters read “EDIFICIO SAN MARTIN.”
A purple and pink sunset over a brick building.
Tortas stuffed with milanesa, sausages, and avocado on a metal counter.
Tall metallic arch over a green lawn.
Small side chapel with a mosaic ceiling in greens, blues, and reds.
Grand cathedral interior with domes and arches covered in elegant mosaics depicting religious iconography.
Massive cathedral with two towers and a central dome towering above worshippers.
Intricate Sullivanesque relief carved into terra cotta.
Tall, boxy high-rise clad in terra cotta with an ornate cornice.
A high-rise with gemlike windows fanning upwards and outwards, creating a jagged effect.
A sculptural installation on a ceiling which is lighted to cast shadows and imply a lunar landscape.
A brick home with roof dormers.
A two-story brick house with a two-story porch.
Second Empire style home with green-painted trim. It is dramatically lit from below, casting large shadows upwards.
Yellow Art Deco theater with red, vertical trim and glass block blade sign. The marquee has a large clock in the center.
A brick apartment building with a central gable atop a wood balcony over the porch.
A dramatic brick and stone house with a large rounded turret and decorative porch.
A large, three-story Romanesque mansion clad in stone with dramatic corner towers and a large porch with heavy arches.
A brick home painted cream with a bright red door. The center of the home features a tall Flemish gable.
A three-store yellow home with an eyebrow former on the left side of the roof.
A large, pink Queen Anne house with steeply pointed gables and a large three-story tower with a conical roof.
A red brick and stone firehouse with a tall square tower at its left end and two gabled bays at the center and to the right. The base features heavy stone arches.
A three story building with wide overhanging roof eaves and large window bays. The storefront level is framed by a decorative and intricate surround.
Tall row of stone and cast-iron Italianate warehouses and storefronts.
Tall Romanesque building with a corner tower.
Small grey Italianate home.
Bungalow home with yellow and red trim frames by blooming flowers.
A tall white tower with a domed crown in front of a grassy lawn.
A large hall space with wide arches supported by stout columns. Every surface is covered in tiles and sculptures in an array of browns and greens.
A concrete, one-story storefront with half-moon windows. Above the entrance is a large purple box with a pink sign reading “Love Boutique” in white cursive.