This page will contain images about Art Deco, as they become available.Art DecoThe Art Deco spire of the Chrysler Building, built 1928-1930, commemorated on a US stampArt Deco (French: Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes) was an early twentieth century movement in the decorative arts, that also grew in influence to affect architecture, fashion and the visual arts. OverviewArt Deco derived its name from the World's fair held in Paris in 1925, formally titled the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, which showcased French luxury goods and reassured the world that Paris remained the international center of style after World War I. Art Deco did not originate with the Exposition; it was a major style in Europe from the early 1920s, though it did not catch on in the U.S. until about 1928, when it quickly modulated into the Streamline Moderne during the 1930s, the decade with which Americanized Art Deco is most strongly associated today. Paris remained the center of the high end of Art Deco design, epitomized in furniture by Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann, the best-known of Art Deco furniture designers and perhaps the last of the traditional Parisian ébénistes, and Jean-Jacques Rateau, the firm of Süe et Mare, the screens of Eileen Gray, wrought iron of Edgar Brandt, metalwork and lacquer of Swiss-Jewish Jean Dunand, the glass of René Lalique and Maurice Marinot, clocks and jewelry by Cartier. The term Art Deco was coined during the Exposition of 1925 but did not receive wider usage until it was re-evaluated in the 1960s. Its practitioners were not working as a coherent community. It is considered to be eclectic, being influenced by a variety of sources, to name a few:
Corresponding to these influences, the Art Deco is characterised by use of materials such as aluminium, stainless steel, lacquer, inlaid wood, sharkskin, and zebraskin. The bold use of zigzag and stepped forms, and sweeping curves (unlike the sinuous curves of the Art nouveau), chevron patterns, and the sunburst motif. Some of these motifs were ubiquitous- for example the sunburst motif was used in such varied contexts as a lady's shoe, a radiator grille, the auditorium of the Radio City Music Hall and the spire of the Chrysler Building. Art Deco was an opulent style and this opulence is attributed as a reaction to the forced austerity during the years of World War I. Art Deco was a popular style for interiors of cinema theatres and ocean liners such as the Ile de France and Normandie. A parallel movement following close behind, the Streamline or Streamline Moderne, was influenced by manufacturing and streamlining techniques arising from science and mass production- shape of bullet, liners, etc., where aerodynamics are involved. Once the Chrysler Air-Flo design of 1933 was successful, "streamlined" forms began to be used even for objects such as pencil sharpeners and refrigerators. In architecture, this style was characterised by rounded corners, used predominantly for buildings at road junctions. Some historians see Art Deco as a type of or early form of Modernism. Art Deco slowly lost patronage in the West after reaching mass production, where it began to be derided as gaudy and presenting a false image of luxury. Eventually the style was cut short by the austerities of World War II. In colonial countries such as India, it became a gateway for Modernism and continued to be used well into the 1960s. A resurgence of interest in Art Deco came with graphic design in the 1980s, where its association with film noir and 1930s glamour led to its use in ads for jewelry and fashion. This is still the image of Art Deco held in the minds of most Americans. Noted Art Deco artists and designers
Noted Art Deco architects
Noted Art Deco designsChicago's Carbon and Carbide Building The Supreme Court Building in Ottawa, Canada Far Eastern University Campus in downtown Manila, Philippines The North Building of the Peace Hotel in Shanghai, China
Jean Gardner's book Houses of the Art Deco Years ISBN 1898030715 looks at the influence of art deco upon suburban housing styles in England. She considers each architectural feature, chapter by chapter, to reveal how various art deco styles influenced British domestic architecture in 1920s and 1930s. This page about Art Deco includes information from a Wikipedia article. Additional articles about Art Deco News stories about Art Deco External links for Art Deco Videos for Art Deco Wikis about Art Deco Discussion Groups about Art Deco Blogs about Art Deco Images of Art Deco |
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Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Colleen Moore Dollhouse at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry. Eltham Palace extension, south-east London. The East and West Stands at Arsenal Stadium in London. Marine Building in Vancouver. Supreme Court of Canada in Ottawa. Université de Montréal central building. Radio City Music Hall. Anzac War Memorial, Sydney built 1929-34 designed C Bruce Dellit (1900-1942), Sculptor: Rayner Hoff. The India of Inchinnan office block, Inchinnan, Renfrewshire, Scotland. The former Byrant and May match factory in Speke, Liverpool. The Hoover Building, Perivale, London. The city was rebuilt in the Art Deco style. Napier, New Zealand - In 1931 the city of Napier was levelled by the Napier earthquake and ensuing fires. The Montreal Eaton 9th floor restaurant is a copy of the huge SS Ile de France first class dining room. The ocean liners Ile de France, Normandie and RMS Queen Mary. Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea. Buffalo City Hall in Buffalo, New York. Peace Hotel in Shanghai. The Mapes Hotel in Reno, Nevada. Guardian Building in Detroit. Fisher Building in Detroit. Golden Gate Bridge. Dallas Fair Park Hall of State. Chrysler Building. Empire State Building. The Bullock's Wilshire Building in Los Angeles, California (now home to Southwestern University School of Law). The Argyle Hotel in Los Angeles, California. Owen Williams. Williams. Ernest A. Thomas Wallis. Ralph Walker. Joseph Sunlight. Clifford Strange. Giles Gilbert Scott. Rowland. Wirt C. William van Alen. George Val Myer. James McKissack. Edwin Lutyens. Henry Vaughan Lanchester. Ely Jacques Kahn. Raymond Hood. Charles Holden. Oliver Hill. Banister Flight Fletcher. Ernest Cormier. George Coles. Pablo Antonio. Carl Paul Jennewein. Walter Dorwin Teague. Sue et Mar. Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann. Paul Manship. Tamara de Lempicka. Jules Leleu. René Lalique. Georg Jensen. Eileen Gray. Alexandra Exter. Erté (Romain de Tirtoff) (1892-1990). Jean Dupas. Jean Dunand. Adolphe Mouron Cassandre. "Machine age" technology such as the radio and skyscraper. Lithe athletic "modern" female forms; flappers' bobbed haircuts. Animal motifs and forms; tropical foliage; ziggurats; crystals; "sunbursts"; stylized fountain motifs. Everything associated with Jazz, Jazz Age or "jazzy". Severe forms of Neoclassicism: Boullée, Schinkel. Fauve color palette. Fractionated, crystalline, facetted form of decorative Cubism and Futurism. Léon Bakst's sets and costumes for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Ancient Greek sculpture and pottery design of the less naturalistic "archaic period". "Primitive" arts of Africa, Egypt, or Aztec Mexico. Early work from the Wiener Werkstätte; functional industrial design. |