Decorative Arts/Art Deco Art &Architecture

Question:Define and describe -

what is meant by “Art Deco”?

Make sure to include traits, characteristics, elements, etc, and

provide examples of where art deco can be found – making it “art deco”.

• Art Deco represented the rapid modernization of the world. While the style was already widespread and was in fashion in the United States and in Europe, the term Art Deco was not known. Modernistic or the "1925 Style" was used.

• The name Art Deco was derived from the 1925 "Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs Industriels et Modernes", held in Paris.

What is “Art Deco”

What is “Art Deco”• Time Period? Yes & No – Primarily the 1920’s and 1930’s

BUT can be any time afterwards• Style? Yes - Primary focus on Geometric Shapes and Linear

features (Moderne)• Movement? Yes, celebrates modernization/mechanization.

Art Deco was primarily an elegant design style dominant in decorative art, fashion, jewelry, textiles, furniture design, interior decoration, and architecture.

Influences• Machine Age and streamline technologies

such as modern aviation, electric lighting, the radio, the ocean liner and the skyscraper

• Greco-Roman Classicism, and the art of Babylon, Assyria, Ancient Egypt,[and Aztec Mexico.[1] Much of this could be attributed to the popular interest in archeology in the 1920s (eg, the tomb of Tutankhamen,

Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs Paris 1925

Exposition International Arts Decoratifs – Paris 1926

Century of Progress

The Chrysler Building (photo by Hedrich-Blessing, CHS HB-01718)

Travel and Transport Building (CHS)

Century of Progress

Interior of The House of Tomorrow. (Hedrich-Blessing photo, HB-01644-1)

Bakelite

• commercial

• Commercial

• Mass Produced

Characteristics

Native American Influences

Penobscot Building Detroit - constructed in 1928 and designed by Wirt Roland. Notice the Swastika?

Asian Influences

Penobscot Building – Detroit

Different Versions of theSwastika

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Fuller Building – Detroit

Rockefeller Center, New

York

Palmolive – Playboy – Palmolive BuildingChicago (Holibard and Root)

The Chrysler Building – New York

Postcard of Empire State Building, New York

The building is deco, as is the postcard itself.

Empire State Building – New York

Niagara-Hudson Building Syracuse, New York

Chicago Board of Trade Building

Architects:Holabird & Root

1929 - 1930

“Urban Canyon”

Chicago Board of Trade Building

ChicagoBoard of Trade

Building

Lobby

What is “Art deco”?

Chicago Board of Trade Building

interior

The Field Building/Bank of

America

Elevators of NYC & Chicago

- Miami

Helen Mar Apartments

Marlin Hotel

Plymouth Hotel

Coca –Cola Bottling Co. – Cincinnati

Coca – Cola Bottling Co. – Los Angeles(Durrah – designed 1st soundstage for Chaplin

Studios

Marianne Theatre – Bellevue, KY (near Cincinnati)

Lake Theatre – Oak Park

Mickey’s Diner – St. Paul, MN

American Art Deco Diners

American Art Deco Gas Stations

Bedford, Pennsylvania

Tucson, Arizona

Thomas Jefferson H.S. – Los Angeles

Hoover Dam – NV & AZ Border

“Cosmic Figure”

Zephyr Train

“Zephyr” Inspired Clock

Norman Bel Geddes.'Patriot', radio,

model 400.American, 1940.

Made by Emerson Radio and

Phonograph Corporation.

Fada.'bullet' streamliner

American, 1940.Made by Fada Radio & Electric Co. Inc.,

Long Island.

Art Deco “Comes Home” Inter-War America was

the prototype of modernity and a symbol of hope for

the world.

• Chase Electric Snack Server Westinghouse Waffle Iron

Westinghouse Coffee

Percolator 

Sunbeam Ironmaster Iron

Westinghouse Coffee Set Manning Bowman Sandwich Maker

 

American Art Deco Wurlitzer

Jukebox

Art Deco-Influenced Hood Ornaments

V8: ‘35 Ford Deluxe Sedan

Greyhound: ‘37

Lincoln Limo

Mercury: ’41 Packard Convertible Deluxe

Swan: ’46 Packard Limo

Swan: ’50 Packard Sedan

Bakelite jewelry & boxes

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we well run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning---

"So we beat on, boats against the current,

borne back ceaselessly into the past."

--- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

Tamara de Lempicka, photographed by d'Ora Studio, Paris, 1929.