Art Deco yes or no?

[TheDoctor]

I've been meaning to go to Napier for years. The town was rebuilt in the Art Deco period after an earthquake.

 

[AndyRM]

How about this poster?

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I think it'd look nice with this type of frame.

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The film, yes, that poster, not really.

 

[Levo-Lon]

I like most art deco..Claridges has many rooms in the AD style..very nice.
Some of the architecture is a bit odd but most 30's stuff is creative and usually easy on the eye..even the plain look

 

[Accy cyclist]

The film, yes, that poster, not really.

Too late,i've ordered it.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

This is the former Beresford Hotel (now apartments) in Glasgow city centre.

 

[AndyRM]

Too late,i've ordered it.

As long as you like it, that's the main thing!

 

[nickyboy]

Even my beloved Morecambe has a classic Art Deco building...Midland Hotel

Fell into disrepair and was then renovated by Urban Splash who did a lot of the regeneration development in Manchester

I do rather like the Art Deco style but wouldn't have any of it in my house as it would look out of place

 

[Haitch]

Miami Beach has loads of Art Deco buildings.

 

[Fab Foodie]

You were too quick for me Foodie! How about this?
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Yep, that too, stunning.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Art Deco is confident, modern, forward looking. We need more of that....

 

[Mrs M]

Bon Accord baths in Aberdeen, been closed for a few years now, standing empty
Use to go for a lunchtime swim occassionally as work nearby.

 

[robjh]

Some lovely art deco in Sidi Ifni in Morocco, which was a small Spanish enclave largely built up between the two world wars.

nb. highly recommended for a cycle tour!

 

[stephec]

You were too quick for me Foodie! How about this?
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We've got one like that in the living room, no coloured inserts like that one though unfortunately.

 

[matiz]

The Riviera hotel Weymouth built in the 30s looks like art deco Spanish style

 

[MikeG]

Nice but for me the 'Arts and Crafts' style of the period was better, I've even got a couple of 'William Morris' style chairs......

Better? More to your taste, and mine, but I wouldn't say better. I love the idea of Arts & Crafts, and it's sort-of what I am doing in my house, with almost everything individually designed and hand-made for the house. However, rather than being what it set out to be, (mediaeval architecture and craft replicated in the modern era) it became a style of its own, and was taken over by half a dozen fashionable designers and theoreticians, and in particular William Morris. Like every architectural fashion it developed its own "language" (ie sets of rules), and these became obsolete when superseded by the next in thing.

The in thing at the moment is box-stacking, with preferably the bottom box being solid looking, either concrete or masonry, and the upper levels projecting in various ways outside the footprint of the lower, and clad in vertical timber boards or zinc. This is getting tired and tiresome, and you won't catch me doing any (I'm an architect).