The glamorous style of the 1920s and 1930s, named after the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs: stepped profiles, sunbursts, zigzags and rich materials, machine-age optimism made ornamental. Its greatest monuments are the New York skyscrapers of the boom years, the Chrysler Building above all.
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PeriodThe 1925 Paris exposition gave the style its name; its motifs were forming in the years just before. PeriodMarks the outbreak of World War II, after which Art Deco lost its international dominance to modernist, unornamented styles. Origin Region Art Deco
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Streamline Moderne is a later, more aerodynamic and curvilinear development out of Art Deco.
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Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc.britannica.com/art/Art-Deco, lead definition
Art Deco, movement in the decorative arts and architecture that originated in the 1910s and 1920s in western Europe and developed into a major style in the United States during the 1930s.
- Notable Examples: Chrysler Building
- Notable Examples: Empire State Building
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Art Deco was an international style but, after the outbreak of World War II, it lost its dominance to the functional and unadorned styles of modern architecture.
Rockefeller Center (Wikipedia)
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The 14 original Art Deco buildings, commissioned by the Rockefeller family
Wikipedia: The Savoy
Wikipedia- Notable Examples: The Savoy, infobox architectural_style field: Art Deco
- Notable Examples: Savoy Hotel, infobox architectural_style field: Art Deco
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Notable Examples: Los Angeles City Hall, infobox architectural_style field: Art DecoView the Source Isokon Building (Wikipedia)
Notable Examples: Isokon Building, infobox architectural_style field: Art Deco, Bauhaus, modernistView the Source Villa Empain
Notable Examples: Villa Empain, infobox architectural_style field: Art DecoView the Source Villa Isola (Wikipedia)
Notable Examples: Villa Isola, infobox architectural_style field: Art-decoView the Source Wikidata: Macy's Herald Square
Notable Examples: Macy's Herald Square, Infobox style field: Palladian, Art DecoView the Source Villa Grock (Wikipedia)
Notable Examples: Villa Grock, Infobox style field: Jugendstil, Art DecoView the Source 30th Street Station (Wikipedia)
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The 562,000 ft2 (52,000 m2) facility features a cavernous main passenger concourse with ornate Art Deco decor.
Wikipedia: Auguste Perret
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the first Art Deco building in Paris
Minnesota Veterans Home (Wikipedia)
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Classical Revival, Art Deco, Romanesque
111 West 57th Street (Wikipedia)
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Neo-Art Deco (residential tower) Neoclassical (Steinway Hall)
Marine Air Terminal - Wikipedia
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Art Deco
United States Bullion Depository (Wikipedia)
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Art Deco
Sunshine School (San Francisco, California) (Wikipedia)
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Spanish colonial revival, Art Deco, Moorish revival
Waldorf Astoria New York (Wikipedia)
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Located at 301 Park Avenue between 49th and 50th Streets, it is a 47-story, 625 ft (191 m) Art Deco structure designed by architects Schultze and Weaver and completed in 1931.
Cincinnati Union Terminal (Wikipedia)
Notable Examples: Cincinnati Union Terminal, Lead sectionQuote, Notable Examples: Cincinnati Union Terminal, Lead section
Its Art Deco design incorporates several contemporaneous works of art, including two of the Winold Reiss industrial murals, a set of sixteen mosaic murals depicting Cincinnati industry commissioned for the terminal in 1931.
Claridge's (Wikipedia)
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A 22 m-deep (72 ft) excavation was dug beneath the Art Deco 1920s extension to create the five-level basement.
Canterbury Castle (Portland, Oregon) (Wikipedia)
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Constructed during 1929-1931, the house was designed by Jeter O. Frye to resemble England's Canterbury Castle on the exterior and to evoke the Art Deco styling of Hollywood of the 1920s on the interior.
Chicago Board of Trade Building, Wikipedia
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The Chicago Board of Trade Building is a 44-story, 604-foot (184 m) Art Deco skyscraper located in the Chicago Loop, standing at the foot of the LaSalle Street "canyon".
The Dorchester, Wikipedia
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The bath tubs, cited as "probably the deepest in London", are made of Italian marble in the Art Deco style.
Golden Gate Bridge (Wikipedia)
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Irving Morrow, a relatively unknown residential architect, designed the overall shape of the bridge towers, the lighting scheme, and Art Deco elements, such as the tower decorations, streetlights, railing, and walkways.
Four Seasons Hotel George V, Paris (Wikidata)
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architectural style: Art Deco architecture
Wikidata: Hotel Nacional de Cuba
Notable Examples: Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Wikidata P149Quote, Notable Examples: Hotel Nacional de Cuba, Wikidata P149
architectural style: Art Deco
Villa Domergue (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationNotable Examples: Villa Domergue, Wikidata P149Quote, Notable Examples: Villa Domergue, Wikidata P149
architectural style: Art Deco
Art Deco (Wikipedia)
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Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs (lit. 'Decorative Arts'), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s just before World War I and flourished internationally during the 1920s to early 1930s, through styling and design of the
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