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Though it only had the distinction of being the world’s tallest building for 11 months, the Chrysler Building has remained ...
Some of the city’s most iconic landmarks were inspired by the architectural design of Art Deco. It started in Europe in the early 1900s and came to New York during the Roaring ‘20s. The Art ...
If we think of modern architecture in its most rigorous form as having stripped away ornament and replaced it wit ...
In the brief window of the interwar period, Art Deco transformed every city with an abundance of concrete, glass and ...
Art Deco may be hard to define, but you know it when you see it. Its architecture is at once angular—associated with shapes ...
Re-Imaging the Past II is an ongoing series, exploring the Art Deco era within New York, specifically Buffalo ... emitted a magical era of cinema, architecture, fashion, and the “morals ...
A decorative style of bold geometric shapes and bright colours, it encompassed furniture, textiles, ceramics, sculpture and architecture. The term ‘Arts Decoratifs’ (later shortened to Art Deco in the ...
Here are cities across America where you can admire this ultra-popular architecture. (Getty Images)| Think art deco, and the first structures that spring to mind are New York City's Chrysler ...
The architecture – reminiscent of the art deco geometry that defined New York in the 1920s and ’30s, with interiors by the late architect Thierry Despont – is in marked contrast to the glass towers ...