Art Deco

[kylaar 0]

 I noticed there wasn't an Art Deco thread. Not sure if anyone is a fan (though one would assume), but I bought a new book (Art Deco Architecture by Patricia Bayer) which is an interesting read so I thought to share some pictures. I've got more if anyone is interested...

I've resized the pictures but if you click on them some of them are very big, just a warning (but cool so do it, do it...)

Both above buildings designed by Milton J. Black circa 1930's/40's Southern California.

The BBC Broadcasting House (1930-32) designed by G. Val Myer. (It looks even better when you see the full image, so click away...)

Oakland Paramount (1931), designed by Miller & Pflueger.

Exterior of 2 park Avenue Building at 32nd and 33rd Streets, New York. Designed by Ely Jacques Kahn (1927).

Pavillion du Tourisme at the 1937 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts et des Techniques Appliques a la Vie Moderne. Designed by P. Sardou, paying homage to Robert Mallet-Stevens' Tourism Pavilion at the 1925 Paris Exposition.

 

Wells that it for now. I have heaps more, plus some photographs of French Morocco in the 30's, 40's and 50's, especially Casablanca, which is amazing. Do you have any favourite Art Deco buildings? It's a shame it didn't take off as much here in Australia as it did elsewhere.
 

 

 

[thepokemaniac 18]

Personally, I have never liked the Art Deco Style of buildings, but you seem to have shown some nice ones! I guess its just what building it is, some catch my eye, others don't.

[GlobexCo 33]

I don't like very much Art Deco since it was born from the old Art Nouveau (I love it!) and architects wanted to polish their buildings from every kind of detail.

Anyway, your first three picture seems to be too near to the Bauhaus(1920-1939) style, and this isn't a real Art Deco (1918-1925); no doubt about the last three picture...

[Francis90b 748]

The expression "art decò" came from the 1925 "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes" held in Paris in 1925.The first three building are different. the first two were built in streamline moderne, the third features a more traditional type of art decò.Bauhaus can't be linked with art decò architecture.

This said, beautiful pictures, especially the fifth one.

[GlobexCo 33]

Originally posted by: Francis90b

The expression "art decò" came from the 1925 "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes" held in Paris in 1925.The first three building are different. the first two were built in streamline moderne, the third features a more traditional type of art decò.Bauhaus can't be linked with art decò architecture.

This said, beautiful pictures, especially the fifth one.

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The concept of "a polish building" started in Wien, with the Wiener Werkstaette and the Secession. Architects started to remove everything that wasn't important. With the Bauhaus we reach the perfect structure, the building as a house where we can live and not a representation of our social class.

The Art Deco is something between a strange kind of Art Nouveau (first) and the Bauhaus (second).

[Francis90b 748]

Originally posted by: GlobexCo

Originally posted by: Francis90b

The expression "art decò" came from the 1925 "Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes" held in Paris in 1925.The first three building are different. the first two were built in streamline moderne, the third features a more traditional type of art decò.Bauhaus can't be linked with art decò architecture.

This said, beautiful pictures, especially the fifth one.

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The concept of "a polish building" started in Wien, with the Wiener Werkstaette and the Secession. Architects started to remove everything that wasn't important. With the Bauhaus we reach the perfect structure, the building as a house where we can live and not a representation of our social class.

The Art Deco is something between a strange kind of Art Nouveauand the Bauhaus .

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Well, seen in this perspective art decò could be seen as a transition between art noveau and modernism/international style.However it is wrong to see a style only as a part of a general trend (i.e. the process towards making "polished buildings") and give it a strict periodization.Art decò lasted well over the bauhaus, as some late art decò buildings were built in the last half of the '40s, and A.D. flourished many years after the heyday of the secession movement.

If we don't accept a strict periodization for any style, then seeing things as "phases" in a process doesn't make much sense anymore.The bauhaus was much more forward in polishing buildings than the art decò trends that were common at the time.Streamline moderne, the art decò sub-style that used less ornaments, reached it's peak in the late thirties, while the bauhaus experience ended in 1933.

This said, i do perceive art decò and early international style as two independent, separate and different architectural trends which happened at the same time.