Retro chic at New York’s JFK

Amid the “modern-day jumble” of New York’s JFK airport, there is a “simulacrum of what jet travel might have been like” in a more glamorous age, says Sunshine Flint in The Independent. The newly opened TWA Hotel is housed in the Eero Saarinen-designed TWA Flight Centre, a 1962 “marvel” of curving white roofs that looks like a bird in flight. Conceived at a time when America was at the height of its power, the former airport terminal is so spectacularly space age it once drew sightseers. The hotel that now occupies it is a “fever dream” of golden age nostalgia. There’s a faultless attention to detail, from the “neat-as-a-pin” cabin crew and pilot uniforms worn by staff to the “covetable” vintage posters, split-flap departure boards and vivid red-and-white insignia colour…

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