[yarddog]

Not sure how it ever happened. Looks OK to me.

Dothan High School is art deco.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Let’s all do the Charleston!!

[W.]

I love art deco, when I find it...

[wbarmy]

The Arts and Crafts buildings at the Texas State Fair grounds in Dallas are some of the most beautiful examples of art deco you can find. Spend an afternoon walking Fair Park and look at all the older buildings, to include the Women's Museum near the entrance. They are great.

[SES1066]

Sole reason to cruise Miami Beach at dusk, even the neon is ‘Art Deco’!

[Rebelbase]

Early 70’s when I was a kid my pals and I helped a friend’s father hand out campaign flyers all over South Beach in Miami. The place was full of run down Art Deco apartments and hotels that had seen better days but were still eye catching.

Back then I bet those buildings sold for a song compared to today.

[BereanBrain]

Great video wrong music

[Robert DeLong]

I like Art Deco, but I love Art Nouveau, at least when it comes to art and lighting. 8>)

I think art deco furniture had an edge. But in many ways the combine nicely together. 8>)

[laplata]

That’s a very well done video and the music was perfect. Thanks for posting.

[MayflowerMadam]

Really cool design, but I wouldn’t want to live every day surrounded by in it my home. Love the clothes and jewelry!

(Seems like the music is more ‘40s than ‘20s. Not sure.)

[Fresh Wind]

Art Deco radios:

https://radiospast.com/

[spankalib]

The video claims that one of Deco’s influences was Bauhaus.

I can’t quite see it, except in maybe some of the more geometric Deco designs.
Deco seems exuberant, beautifully extravagant at times, pretty far from the boring functionality of Bauhaus.

Tom Wolfe eviscerates that boring functionality in his book: “From Bauhaus to Our House”, although he lumped Bucky Fuller in there - he was wrong about Bucky, I’m still a huge fan of Wolfe, and his rapier like slicing...with a smile :)

I think you’d enjoy that book.

[Nik Naym]

Why the 1940s music? It doesn’t fit.

I tried watching this, but it looks as if whoever put it together just HAD to play with every slide dissolve and transition trick in their little software program. Good Lord it’s distracting! An amateurish hack job.

I gave up after about 3 minutes.

[RegulatorCountry]

Asheville, NC has some beautiful unmolested examples of Art Deco architecture in their remarkably well preserved downtown. The city boomed in the roaring 20’s but went bust in the crash leading to the Great Depression. They insisted upon paying their debts and did so, finally crawling out of the hole in the 70’s. Much of that now glorious downtown was basically boarded up and benefitted from benign neglect, no urban renewal or new development destroyed any of it. Asheville is now booming again with almost all of those Art Deco buildings renovated or restored to their former glory.

[EinNYC]

My favorite Art Deco icon is the Chrysler Building in Manhattan. A classic example of Art Deco architecture, it is considered by many architects to be one of the finest buildings in the world. It was to be an homage to Chrysler automobiles (considered very chic at that time) and the machine age of the 1920s. It has interesting gargoyles which look like a cross between a classic car and a winged predator. Its prominent central spire brings immediate recognition to anyone spotting it.

No expense was spared in its construction. Even the elevators are lined with rare imported woods and are gorgeous. The lobby is lined with exquisite African marble made into timeless designs.

Even the windows reflect the Art Deco theme, and are stunning:

[forgotten man]

Union Station in Los Angeles, completed in 1938, is beautiful.

[Boiler Plate]

In Scandinavia it is known as "Funki" as in functional. Helsinki has some of the most beautiful examples including the train station by a famous architect by the name of Eliel Saarinen. Eliel's son Eero Saarinen was the architect of Dulles International Airport in Washington DC.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping for later*