architecht lobby observatory room / cloud club cloud club, "the highest in the world" cloudclub In fact, it was at a meeting in the Cloud Club in 1936, just after a Cuban honeymoon with Clare Boothe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4XTeh6tjIs), that Luce dreamed up what became Life magazine. Luce's son, Henry Luce III, recalls visiting the Cloud Club once with his father when he was 12 or 13. "I remember the wind whistling through very noisily," before closure and observatory room "In the design of the public observation lounge, located just above the Cloud Club, Van Alen outdid himself. In all likehood inspired by German Expressionist filmsets, perhaps especially by The Canbinet of Doctor Caligari, Van Alen capitalized on the narrow gallerylike space tucked in under the spire by treating the walls as a series of tilted in angular planes collapsing i9nward toward the ceiling. Above a wooden dardo that sinuosly curved to represent a horizont of rolling hills, the walls were painted with fading sun rays and shaded at the top into a star-studded nighttime sky. The lighting fixtures were miniature Saturns: globes of milky glass ringed in metal"