December 2012 - Art Deco Society of Washington
... while the setbacks of the tower and the cubist finial strengthen the resemblance to a New York skyscraper. Such setbacks were required in New York, not in Havana, where there was no danger of skyscrapers cutting off the light of the street. But the New York of the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings ...
... while the setbacks of the tower and the cubist finial strengthen the resemblance to a New York skyscraper. Such setbacks were required in New York, not in Havana, where there was no danger of skyscrapers cutting off the light of the street. But the New York of the Chrysler and Empire State Buildings ...
art deco parcours - Basiliek van Koekelberg
... The Halles America refer to the port function of this neighbourhood, next to the canal. In former times, the Customs Offices and Trade Dock were installed here. In 1910 – 1911, the Brussels-Seaport was constructed outside the city. The dock disappeared and the city approved a new project of urbanisa ...
... The Halles America refer to the port function of this neighbourhood, next to the canal. In former times, the Customs Offices and Trade Dock were installed here. In 1910 – 1911, the Brussels-Seaport was constructed outside the city. The dock disappeared and the city approved a new project of urbanisa ...
Bulwer Road - Durban Art Deco Society
... It is a memorial to the fallen of both World Wars and incorporates the Rolls of Honour of the two world Wars. From the Dorothy Nyembe (Gardiner) Street side of the City Gardens, one enters the Sacred Acre through bronze gates with stylised Art Deco bronze lions standing on either side, set on stone ...
... It is a memorial to the fallen of both World Wars and incorporates the Rolls of Honour of the two world Wars. From the Dorothy Nyembe (Gardiner) Street side of the City Gardens, one enters the Sacred Acre through bronze gates with stylised Art Deco bronze lions standing on either side, set on stone ...
winsites_deco - Teaching Heritage
... appeal and appropriateness of so many large of its structures. In contrast to later versions of architectural modernism, this design movement was popular and adaptable. Art Deco was an international style that encompassed diverse elements and regional definitions. Coined in the late 1960s, the term ...
... appeal and appropriateness of so many large of its structures. In contrast to later versions of architectural modernism, this design movement was popular and adaptable. Art Deco was an international style that encompassed diverse elements and regional definitions. Coined in the late 1960s, the term ...
Art Deco
Art Deco (/ˌɑrt ˈdɛkoʊ/), or Deco, is an influential visual arts design style that first appeared in France just before World War I and began flourishing internationally in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s before its popularity waned after World War II. It took its name, short for Arts Décoratifs, from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) held in Paris in 1925. It is an eclectic style that combines traditional craft motifs with Machine Age imagery and materials. The style is often characterized by rich colours, bold geometric shapes and lavish ornamentation.Deco emerged from the interwar period when rapid industrialisation was transforming culture. One of its major attributes is an embrace of technology. This distinguishes Deco from the organic motifs favoured by its predecessor Art Nouveau.Historian Bevis Hillier defined Art Deco as ""an assertively modern style [that] ran to symmetry rather than asymmetry, and to the rectilinear rather than the curvilinear; it responded to the demands of the machine and of new material [and] the requirements of mass production"".During its heyday, Art Deco represented luxury, glamour, exuberance and faith in social and technological progress.