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Art Deco
A community portal about Art Deco with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Art Deco was a popular design movement from 1910 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and... [more]
A community portal about Art Deco with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Art Deco was a popular design movement from 1910 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts, and film. This movement was, in a sense, an amalgamation of many different styles and movements of the early 20th century, including Constructionism, Cubism, Modernism, Bauhaus, Art Nouveau, and Futurism. Its popularity apexed during the 1920s. Although many design movements have political or philosophical roots or intentions, Art Deco was purely decorative. At the time, this style was seen as elegant, functional, ultra modern.
Mount Prospect Park, 1939. New [main branch of Brooklyn Public] Library is in [far right] background. Image courtesy of BPL. Brooklyn Public Library in New York City was established in 1896. Between 1901 and 1923, philanthropist Andrew Carnegie donated $1.6 million toward the development of twenty one branches.
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Archaeologist Howard Carter thrilled the world when, on November 4, 1922, he discovered steps leading down to the ancient tomb of King Tutankhamen. Soon a fascination for Egypt found expression in clothing, jewelry, furniture, graphic design and - of course - architecture.
By 1925, the world had a jazzy new style known as Art Deco...
The Dawn of Deco originally appeared on About.com Architecture on Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at 01:00:00...
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I’ve lived in Miami since the early 80’s and never really considered it an architecturally relevant city, let’s face it, it was developed in the early 1900’s and mostly as a “getaway” place with some kind of “Mediterranean Revival” theme of sorts. When I think of cities with great architecture in the US, New York, [...]
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A parallel movement called [[Streamline Moderne]], or simply Streamline, followed close behind. Streamline was influenced by the modern aerodynamic designs, including those emerging from advancing technologies in [[aviation]], [[ballistics]], and other fields requiring high velocity. The attractive...
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Here you'll find vintage images, mostly from my flickr photostream. If I blogged one of your images and you would like me to remove it, please drop me a line. Thank you for your visit! Artistas Portugueses · Beautiful Century ...
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