The Film Center's first-floor interior, highlighted by Kahn's "highly individualistic version of the Art Deco style", which shows pre-Columbian influences, was designated a New York City landmark in 1982.

According to the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission's designation report:
All the various elements of Kahn's unique approach to modernistic design were brought to bear on the Film Center Building's interior.
Its walls and ceilings are handsomely worked in the plaster tapestry effect, and the polychromatic and decorative schemes are broad enough to include mosaics, elevator doors, the directory board, vent grilles, staircase risers, and elaborate, purely ornamental, three-dimensional motifs of abstract cylinders and stylized movie cameras.
The overall effect is one of Kahn's most striking interior designs.


Of particular interest is the polychromatic elevator lobby mosaic.
The Film Center's first-floor interior, highlighted by Kahn's "highly individualistic version of the Art Deco style", which shows pre-Columbian influences, was designated a New York City landmark in 1982.
According to the New York Landmarks Preservation Commission's designation report:
All the various elements of Kahn's unique approach to modernistic design were brought to bear on the Film Center Building's interior. Its walls and ceilings are handsomely worked in the plaster tapestry effect, and the polychromatic and decorative schemes are broad enough to include mosaics, elevator doors, the directory board, vent grilles, staircase risers, and elaborate, purely ornamental, three-dimensional motifs of abstract cylinders and stylized movie cameras. The overall effect is one of Kahn's most striking interior designs.

Of particular interest is the polychromatic elevator lobby mosaic.
Film Center Building