You can still get good quality chrome in a custom setting. The scale of high-quality chrome on bicycles has died back certainly, but if you really want it, you can still get it (for a price, of course).

Interestingly enough, premium Schwinn touring bikes of the 1950s (which one would think is the high point of chrome, given it's a 1950s era and American-made) were more known for their use of stainless steel and two-stage automotive type paints than for large amounts of chrome. They used more chrome than bikes today, but it's not like the bikes were totally plated either.

1957 Schwinn Traveler, with stainless steel fenders (obligatory fin included) and two-stage green paint:



1959 Schwinn Traveler, stainless fenders again and two-stage green paint:



Interestingly, even in the 1940s and 50s, higher end Schwinn touring bikes had stainless steel rims, not chrome ones:



The stainless steel 1940s-50s Schwinn fenders, when properly worked and polished, are really impressive up close and in-person.