Recent Posts Tagged With 'art deco'

• Mildura: a rural city full of Art Deco gems

  Posted on Sunday October 18th, 2009 at 06:41 in architecture, australia, art deco

  Following the establishment of a rich irrigation colony in 1887 by the American Chaffey brothers, Mildura was always a well planned city, laid out on a grid. The first buildings in the town were in the Victorian and Federation styles, using local red...

• Art Deco and the American Diner

  Posted on Wednesday September 2nd, 2009 at 19:22 in architecture, usa, art deco

  Art Deco always seemed to work best on small architecture like houses, blocks of flats, cinemas, train and bus depots, theatres, petrol stations and war memorials. Architects could use angular and clean lines, with stepped back facades, symmet­ri...

• Charles Sargeant Jagger I: war and sex

  Posted on Wednesday July 29th, 2009 at 04:47 in sculpture, britain, art history, art deco, war memorials

  Charles Jagger 1885-1934 was born in Yorkshire and studied art in Sheffield before moving to London to study sculpture at the Royal College of Art for some years. He was just starting to develop his career when World War One broke out in 1914. So Jag...

• Art Deco - War Memorials

  Posted on Saturday January 24th, 2009 at 21:29 in architecture, art history, art deco, war memorials

  I didn’t understand why memorials built to honour Great War soldiers utilised the Deco style. After millions of people had been slaughtered in WW1, we might have expected statues of weeping mothers and young male bodies to emerge in every city and ...

• Art Deco and Cruise Ships, a marriage made in heaven

  Posted on Saturday January 17th, 2009 at 19:07 in art history, art deco, 1930s, cruise ships

  Art Deco epitomised the age of jazz, Hollywood glamour and conspicuous consumption, or at least the promise of the glamour. Deco was adopted as a totally modern style and became the style of the new pleasure sites: cinemas, cruise ships, restaurants ...

• Art Deco in Miami Beach

  Posted on Monday January 12th, 2009 at 06:42 in architecture, miami, art history, art deco

  Art deco was a very decorative architectural style popular in many countries from the middle 1920s and throughout the 1930s. But not all deco architecture and design developed identically, across the world.Miami Beach has an art deco district that pr...

• A Passion for Building Art Deco 1929-39

  Posted on Wednesday January 7th, 2009 at 21:30 in architecture, art deco

  I can absolutely understand why cinemas built from the late 1920s until the outbreak of war in 1939 would want to be Deco. Firstly Art Deco theatres were responding­ to the hard times in which they were built; the misery of the Great Depression w...