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84 unusual facts about art déco


189, Frank Tate Building

Originally part of the Melbourne Teachers’College, this Art Deco building is currently designed a learning centre designed to allow a multitude of different user groups to configure the space according to their individual requirements.

1940 Air Terminal Museum

The 1940 Air Terminal is the AIAA's 35th aurospace site recognized as a rare example of classic Art Deco airport architecture.

Artistic Dress movement

The delicate, lightly corseted tea gowns of the turn of the 20th century echo the lines of late aesthetic dress, and in their turn paved the way for the early Art Deco creations of Paul Poiret.

Asaka-no-miya

The princess came to France to nurse him and learned much about Art Deco at a 1925 exposition.

August Paulsen

The Medical and Dental Building is a 15-story Art Deco style skyscraper, with Spanish Moor styled exterior.

Augusta, Kansas

The Augusta Theater, now home to the Augusta Arts Council, is a classic example of Art Deco.

Baranger Studios

Their appearance was toy-like, cartoonish, or Art Deco, and they featured simple, repetitive motions performed by the doll-like sculptures.

Barford Court, Hove

Many interior touches are reminiscent of interwar Art Deco cinema architecture, contrasting with the "austere" Neo-Georgian exterior.

In particular, the interior—whose elaborate flourishes and modern features contrast with the "austere" Neo-Georgian exterior—has much in common with the Art Deco style in which he usually worked.

Barnards Green

The centre of Barnard's Green is marked by the Twelve Apostles Island, a pear-shaped traffic roundabout in the central shopping area with its Art Deco style memorial bus shelter, and the nearby Hand of Peace sculpture in Portland stone by artist Rose Garrard.

Best Products

Their Parham Road headquarters, built in 1981 and designed by Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer, was notable for an American Institute of Architects award and the use of Art Deco eagles rescued from a New York building.

Bishopstone railway station

The Art Deco design is said to be inspired by that of Arnos Grove tube station, which was designed by Charles Holden, and was intended to be the centrepiece of a proposed residential development that never took place due to the outbreak of the Second World War.

Boyd Theatre

Boasting an opulent Art Deco lobby, extravagant marquee and ticket booth and a 2,450 seat auditorium that featured a screen advertised as 'the largest in Philadelphia', the theater became well known among several others along Chestnut Street.

Burlingame, San Diego

Burlingame is a historic district recognized by the City of San Diego for its Craftsman Bungalow, Tudor Revival, Mission Revival, Spanish Colonial Revival, Prairie School, Art Deco and California Ranch architectural styles as well as properties that are hybrids of several styles.

Calvin Coolidge Bridge

Art Deco ornamentation on the pylons includes carved eagles and incised carved lettering.

Champlin Architecture

At the turn of the 20th Century, Harry Hake designed buildings such as the Art Deco Cincinnati and Suburban Telephone Company Building, the English Renaissance Queen City Club, and the Greek Revival Western Southern Life Insurance Co. Headquarters.

Chessington Branch Line

All the stations on the line were of concrete in an Art Deco style, typical of the period.

Concertgebouw de Vereeniging

The hall was officially opened in 1915, and is built in a nixture of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles.

Craigmillar

One of the few retained buildings of significance is "The White House" former public house, an Art Deco listed building which was restored with gallery space inside in 2011.

Crown Coach Corporation

Working with Tanner Grey Line of Los Angeles, Crown designed the well-known Art Deco coach that eventually led to a school coach using unibody construction, mid-ship underfloor mounted commercial truck engines (often by Detroit Diesel or Cummins; a handful of them had Caterpillar engines) and off-the-shelf Class 8 truck parts, which made them economical to operate.

David Malcolm Renton

The Casino Ballroom on Catalina Island is an iconic Art Deco style building.

Downtown Beaumont

Jefferson County Court house is located in downtown and is a notable Art Deco building.

Eden Terrace

This fine Art Deco structure from the 1930s is also located in Upper Symonds Street.

Eritrean Railway

They are attractive looking, rounded things, very Art Deco in style, with large Fiat radiators on the front.

Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library

The old Central Library in downtown Evansville was an Art Deco building.

Fourways

Nevertheless, it is well worth visiting to admire the superb Art Deco finishes which abound and remain, such as seashell-inspired window fastenings, and air grates above windows delicately molded of plaster and depicting classic Art Deco ideas: the stag and a silph-like female form in a forest.

Fullbrook School

The plaque design is very much in the Art Deco style and it is possible that it came from a London building destroyed during The Blitz.

George Washington Donaghey

The Art Deco-style monument contains intricate carvings and includes references to transportation in 1831 and 1931 and mentions Governor Huey P. Long, Jr., whose educational program Donaghey admired.

Gerry McGeer

McGeer is also credited with the construction of Vancouver City Hall, a landmark Art Deco building funded in part by a baby bond scheme conceived by McGeer.

Gondar

The main piazza features shops, a cinema, and other public buildings in a simplified Italian Moderne style still distinctively of the period despite later changes and, frequently, neglect.

Hogansville, Georgia

This theater, an excellent example of Art Deco style was the center of social life in Hogansville for decades.

Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races

It now features a 1930s Art Deco and classic Hollywood theme, as well as various table games like blackjack and roulette and a 50-table (combined) poker room on two different floors in two different areas.

Hotel Heritage

Da Liberdade, Hotel Britania is a building full of small details of genuine Art Deco project by Cassiano Branco.

Hubcap

Hubcaps were immortalized in the Art Deco styling near the top of one rung of setbacks (ornamental frieze) incorporates ncorporates a band of hubcaps on the Chrysler Building in midtown Manhattan.

Irwin Chanin

Irwin Salmon Chanin (29 October 1891 – 24 February 1988) was a Jewish American architect and real estate developer, best known for designing several Art Deco towers and Broadway theaters.

J. P. McCaskey High School

While the main building was subsequently extended, the original façade, lobby, and auditorium are set in Art Deco style.

Jakob Bengel

It was during the Bauhaus and Art Deco period that designers were looking to obtain new materials and inspiration to produce costume jewelry.

Jeanne-Mance Park

An Art Deco drinking fountain with an inscription in honour of Louis Rubenstein is located at the corner of Mount Royal Avenue and Park Avenue.

Joske's

The store was expanded and renovated again in 1939, sporting a new Art Deco facade as well as the first escalators installed in a Texas store.

Killarney, Gauteng

Killarney currently is home to consulates, tall residential buildings (including some of Johannesburg's best examples of Art Deco architecture) and a golf course.

Lince District

Although not commonly known, Lince possesses a great concentration of Art Deco architecture, comparable in density and style to the highly appreciated Art Deco architecture of the South Beach district of Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

Linthouse

The Luma Tower is a famous landmark in the area; originally an Art Deco light bulb factory - it was restored and converted to private housing in the mid-1990s.

LSWR suburban lines

The stations on the line were of concrete in an Art Deco style, typical of the Southern Railway's design style of the period.

Madeleine Chéruit

Vogel hired leading Art Deco artists to fill the pages with striking illustrations of the designers' fashions that he joined with essays by noted writers.

Maindee

The former Maindee Baths is an Art Deco building and the disused empty swimming pool has been used for location shots in the BBC TV series Being Human.

Malmskillnadsbron

It takes the street Malmskillnadsgatan over Kungsgatan ("The King's Street") flanked on its east side by two Art Deco towers called Kungstornen ("The King's Towers").

Manhattan Marriage Bureau

The new Marriage Bureau opened on January 12, 2009 in an 1920's Art Deco building on the ground floor at 141 Worth Street (corner of Centre Street and Worth Street) that was formerly occupied by a Department of Motor Vehicles office.

Maurice Durand

The four were built in an Art Deco style; notably, each tower was designed as a unique building, different from the others in the series.

Maybury

Dominated by a major road junction, the most notable feature is the Maybury Roadhouse, built in 1935 and one of Edinburgh's finest examples of Art Deco architecture.

Meadow Lea

The Art Deco heritage listed residential home named Meadow Lea at 22 Sydney Road, East Lindfield, Sydney, was built on 4 housing plots and completed in about 1941 for James Armstrong, at the time the Sales Manager of the Meadow Lea Margarine Company.

Mel Bernie Company

Inspired by the Edwardian and Art Deco jewelry of the TV show’s period, this collection was created by the design team at 1928 and approved by the Downton Abbey producers in England through an exclusive licensing agreement.

Monica Goodling

On May 7, 2007, National Journals "Inside Washington" column reported that it was Goodling who ordered drapes to be placed over the partially nude Art Deco statues (Spirit of Justice) in the Justice Department's Great Hall during Ashcroft's tenure as Attorney General.

Mouldsworth

Sights include Mouldsworth Motor Museum, founded in 1971 and housed in a 1930s Art Deco building, formerly a water-softening plant.

Napier Boys' High School

Originally built in brick in 1926, the school has now been fully redeveloped in the Art Deco style, in keeping with the Napier City theme.

North Dakota Legislative Assembly

Under the approval of Governor George F. Shafer, the current Art Deco capitol was built as a replacement between 1931 to 1934 in the midst of the Great Depression.

The Legislative Assembly convenes in the west chamber of the 19-story Art Deco state capitol building in Bismarck.

OK Sauce

However, the Art Deco facade of the Southfields building, visible from Merton Road.

Omerta – City of Gangsters

Beside those real buildings the remaining ones - which are shown in Art Deco - are very similar to each other and seems to consist only of a few types.

Pennypack Theatre

The Pennypack Theatre is an historic Art Deco style movie house located on the 8000 block of Frankford Avenue of Holmesburg in the northeast section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Pincushion

The original popularity of the pincushion dolls continued into the early 20th century, and some styles reflect Art Deco or similar 20th-century styles.

Point Chevalier

The houses of the area are predominantly 1920s Californian Bungalows and 1930s & 1940s Art Deco, which gives the suburb an interesting pre-war atmosphere.

Prince Yasuhiko Asaka

During that period, Prince and Princess Asaka became enthralled with the Art Deco movement.

Rocketship X-M

The next morning the scientists, clad in aviation oxygen masks due to the low atmospheric pressure, begin exploring the desolate surface of Mars, eventually coming across physical evidence of a now dead advanced civilization: a partially buried-in-the-sand, stylized, Art Deco- or Tiki culture-like metal face sculpture, and in the distance Moderne architecture-like ruins.

Roxana, Illinois

In the early 1940s, a large Art Deco-style theater was built at the northwest corner of Thomas Street and Central Avenue, at 400 N. Central Avenue.

Sack of Palermo

With hastily drafted zoning variances or in wanton violation of the law, builders tore down countless Art Deco palaces and asphalted many of the city's finest parks, transforming one of the most beautiful cities in Europe into a thick, unsightly forest of cement condominia.

Sedgwick Theater

The Sedgwick Theater, located at 7137 Germantown Ave in Philadelphia, is designed in the 1920s style of an Art Deco Movie Palace.

Ship Canal House

The building was designed by Harry S Fairhurst in a neo-classical style and displays some Art Deco and Edwardian Baroque motifs such as square windows and roof sculptures which were prevalent during the 1920s.

Silver End

The village includes some noteworthy early examples of Modernist architectural design; the distinctive white, flat-roofed houses on Frances Way and Silver Street are the work of influential Scottish architect Thomas S. Tait, a leading designer of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne buildings in the 20th Century who is also credited with designing the concrete pylons on Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Sinking Island

The events take place on a fictional island owned by the late Walter Jones in an Art Deco-style tower.

Skyscrapers of Windsor, Ontario

The Bell Canada Building is an Art Deco structure located in Downtown Windsor, at 1149 Goyeau Street.

The building is an Art Deco building standing at 5 storeys in height, and was formerly known as the "Post Office Building", until Canada Post moved its downtown offices into a larger building down the street in 1994.

St Andrew's House

Tait's design incorporates elements of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne and is noted for being a rare example of sensitively designed modern architecture in Edinburgh.

The large, Category A listed, Art Deco-influenced building looks out over Waverley station, the Canongate and Holyrood Park.

St Mary Magdalene's Church, Battlefield

Some of the gravestones in the churchyard contain Victorian and Art Deco carving.

Telefoni Bianchi

For example, there would be expensive Art Deco sets featuring white telephones (status symbol of bourgeois wealth and generally unavailable to the movie-going public), and children would have Shirley Temple curls.

University of Sydney Library

It was originally in the Blackburn building, a Georgian style building overlaid with Art Deco.

Visalia Heights, Visalia, California

Traveling around the neighborhood, one also discovers that many other styles of architecturally significant homes are to be found here, such as Craftsman, Bungalow, Mission Revival, Art Deco, and Colonial Revival, to name a few.

Wairarapa Times-Age

The newly merged paper moved to a purpose-built Art Deco-inspired building on the narrow corner of Chapel Street (SH 2) and Cole Street in Masterton.

Waseda El Dorado

The curving wrought-iron balconies take the form of lily pads, and the wrought-iron banister gracefully zigzags past elegant Art Deco stained-glass windows.

West Monkseaton Metro station

The station was designed in the Art Deco style, fashionable in some circles when the suburb was built, but echoed very little by the surrounding housing, which tends towards the more traditional "Mock Tudor" suburban style of mainly semi-detached housing that grew up between the 1920s and the 1950s.

West View Park

In 1948, Danceland was enclosed and re-styled in an Art Deco theme.

William H. Block Co.

During the expansion the building's interior and exterior was redesigned in a moderne style, including furnishings, stainless steel escalators, and two-story polished black marble and stainless steel facade entrances.

Women's College Hospital

The 1935 wing was as 10 storey Art Deco building that is being torn down despite historical designation for WCH.

Yakima Valley Museum

The Museum Soda Fountain is a functioning replica of a late 1930s Art Deco soda fountain.


Americanization School

The Americanization school displays hints of Art Deco while also taking in North AfricanIslamic influences that he picked up from his brief partnership with Frank Mead, another San Diego architect.

Azteca Theater

The Azteca Theater (Teatro Azteca) is an historic Art Deco theater in the Chinatown district of Fresno, California, built by Gustavo Acosta in 1948.

Cremorne, New South Wales

In an Art Deco style, it features a Wurlitzer pipe-organ that is played at selected film screenings.

El Cortez Hotel

The El Cortez Hotel, at 239 W. 2nd St. in Reno, Nevada, is a historic Art Deco-style hotel that was designed by Reno architects George A. Ferris and Son and was built in 1931.

Ely Jacques Kahn

In this period his work alternated Beaux-Arts with cubism, modernism, and art deco, of which examples are 2 Park Avenue (1927), using architectural terracotta in jazzy facets and primary colors, the Film Center Building in Hell's Kitchen (1928–29) and the Squibb Building (1930), which Kahn considered among his best work.

Hugo Scheiber

The uniquely modernist style that he developed was, however, closer to German Expressionism than to Futurism and eventually drifted toward an international art deco manner similar to Erté’s.

John Augur Holabird

The firm became known for buildings in the Art Deco style, particularly Chicago skyscrapers, including 333 North Michigan Avenue, the Palmolive Building, the Chicago Daily News Building, the Chicago Board of Trade, and the Henry Crown Field House, as well as the North Dakota State Capitol.

Monumento a la Revolución

The open building was designed by Carlos Obregón Santacilia in an eclectic Art Deco and Mexican socialist realism style, over the existing cupola structure of the cancelled Palacio Legislativo Federal (Federal Legislative Palace) by Émile Bénard.

Saint Paul Women's City Club

Paul Women's City Club is a 1931 Art Deco Streamline Moderne-style Mankato limestone clubhouse which provided a dining room, assembly rooms, dressing rooms, and bedrooms for members and guests of the club, in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

St. Robert Bellarmine Catholic Church

The elementary school, a 1930s rebuilding of the original Holy Trinity Church, is partly Neoclassical (based on Thomas Jefferson's stables at Monticello), and partly Moderne.

Vitreous marble

Used for internal and external tiling and façades of buildings from the 1920s to the 1950s, it is often associated with the streamlining of the Art Deco and Art Moderne movements.

Walkerville, Ontario

The Tivoli Theatre (recently reopened Old Walkerville Theatre), is of 1920s art-deco design by C. Howard Crane (who would also design the Fox Theater in Detroit, Michigan).

Woollahra, New South Wales

It is a rarity insofar as it is an Art Deco church, which is unusual enough, and it also shows the influence of Dutch architecture.