Art Deco in 9 Minutes: Why Is It The Most Popular Architectural Style? 🗽
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- čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
- What comes to your mind when you think of the 1920s? For most people, the 1920s conjures up images of jazz, flappers, Old Hollywood, the Great Gatsby, and the Chrysler Building in New York City. It was a time of prosperity, exorbitant spending, and entertainment that gave rise to one of the most popular decorative arts and architecture movements - known as Art Deco.
Characterized by exquisite craftsmanship, lavish decoration, and rich materials, the style has become synonymous with the Roaring Twenties. So, what was the Art Deco movement all about and what differentiates it from other major movements? Finally, despite its popularity today, what makes Art Deco so closely associated with the 1920s?
In this week's video, we’ll dive into the history of the era and learn about Art Déco, the style that continues to inspire designers and architects around the world!
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To me Art Deco is architecture was how to make modern architecture while not neglecting beauty. To me Art Deco is everything that Brutalism did away with.
What an interesting thought! 💭
Oooo yuss I couldn’t agree more!!! There’s so much life to Art Deco. Each building always feels like a piece of art.
@@CuriousMuse I’m just wondering about your thumbnail picture of a vintage Corvette. Is that considered Art Deco?
@@jayjay-bz3rr it's a Deco-style car so can of course be seen as a product inspired by this style
@@CuriousMuse Great. I was going to use it in my Art Deco oil painting
Art Deco is timeless elegance. It will always be fresh.
Forever elegant 👌
I like that it's modern...and humane. It's hopeful...and functional looking. It looks forward, but maintains some of the ornate beauty of the past.
I have always been drawn to Art Deco and moderne styles. The designers almost universally recognized that in their buildings proper proportion was a must for the building to age gracefully.
@B Babbich Excellent question ! Lots to unpack here. If by "age" we are talking about appearance, than it is mostly on the owners to upkeep what are arguably sometimes fussy building materials that require more than the usual amount of maintenance to their finishes. If by age we are talking about "going out of style" that can be attributed to the flow of time - unstoppable. Modern is a style of architecture that came out of the post WW2 era. The buildings tended to be void of ornamentation with mostly straight lines. Mies van der Rohe was a great American Architect who created masterpieces in this style. If we are talking about modern being a reference to "new" than again, it is probably an upkeep issue.
The one thing I have learned in my forty plus years as a design professional is that, if you get the proportions of a building correct, you can screw up a lot of other stuff and get away with it. If the proportions are off out of the gate, not a lot of chances to recover from that one.
Cheers
If you want to know what real art deco is, dont listen to some millennial who cant even pronounce words appropriately. Read the book Depression Modern written in the 1970s. This video is ignorant.
@B Babbich
It depends which one building youre talking about?
@B Babbich Marble and stainless steel vs concrete, iron and glass.
Of course the jewel building made with no expense spared is gonna endure the khrushchevkas.
To me, Art Deco is the perfect mix between Traditional (feminine) and Modern/Contemporary (masculine) styles. I love the symmetry of this style, the bold colors (I hate beige and grey of today house interiors) and the curves. It's elegant but still functional.
props
Aesthetic, Modern yet Classical, Possible to be Practical, and Beautiful. Its a combination of all the functions of a good building.
Dear Muse: Poirot is pronounced "pwa-RO". I wouldn't normally make a correction of pronunciation, but I must mention this one. So, before you call the great Belgian detective by his first name, it's spelled Hercules, but pronounced "er-CULE".
Thank you very much, very helpful 👍🏻
Mispronounced several other things as well. Still…good information, overall. Glad you shared the pronunciations.
All of the French names and brands in this video are grossly mispronounced. You'd think they'd do a better job. Dislike.
"Poo-rot" will never leave my brain now. Ever. :(
was going to write this here too , it hurt my ears :p
Art Deco is really timeless. Jewelry, from that era, is so unique. It has strength and femininity to it.
I've never heard of the streamline design era being its own style but it makes sense 😮
Art Deco being already a toned down version of Art Nouveau, there was a clear path towards simplification
Sounds like we could make a whole new video about Art Nouveau 😍
@@CuriousMuse Si, please
It’ll be our next video 💪🏻
Nice 🥸
@@CuriousMuse have you done or plan to do a video on Euro Deco?
Art Deco, had a clean simplicity that had never been seen before, but it was simultaneously very decorative.
Since then, there hasn't been a definitive style to match it in appeal.
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It is extraordinary how one usually does not think of Art-Deco when thinking of London but we have many beautiful buildings that either are pure deco, streamliner aesthetics inspired, or more restrained versions of it.
London has it all! 😍
@@CuriousMuse that why I'm still in love :))))
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Yep. Whenever peopl think of art deco, they usually think of New York
Because New York
From what I have understood, alot of the design was based on speed and movement, inspired by planes, trains and automobiles that had started to evolve at that time period. Thats why household objects like toasters and furniture at that time had an aerodynamic streamlined look.
First time I heard about Art Deco was when Egon mentioned it in Ghostbusters. ;)
The speed thing led to Futurism, which was openly sympathetic to fascism. Art Deco came before and was excesses of the rich, for the most part.
Art Deco also appear in the video game Bioshock from 2007.
The SS Normandie done in luxurious Art Deco styles is pure elegance.
The Amazon Prime series, “Nightmare Alley,” has the most luscious Art Deco sets I have ever seen in a movie. Beside the series being good enough to binge watch, watching it for the Art Deco set designs is is worth the time by themselves.
I still have yet to watch that. I thought it was on HBO Max.
Even many airplanes had art-deco influence! With my favorite being the Beech Model 17 Staggerwing, and of course the Lockheed Super Constellation
Flying Art Deco plane ✈️, so chic! 👌🏻
The Poirot series available on CZcams is the best in carefully selecting Art Deco everything to create the atmosphere of mid 1920's - mid 1930's. Especially the first seasons, they scaled down afterwards.
Amazing collection of Art Deco architecture and artifacts and all in pristine condition!
PS. And the biggest number of surviving Art Deco houses are in Tel Aviv and Mumbai thanks to the British influence.
We were surprised to learn that Mumbai contains the world's second largest concentration of Art Deco buildings, after Miami! 😮
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Since I moved to Mexico I have been surprised by the number of Art Deco buildings. I live in a colonial city center. Most of the neighborhood I live in is from the 17th and 18th Century, so I enjoy seeing the surprise of Deco amongst the very modern Mexican style. Thank you for another great video.
So great to hear they still have these buildings despite all modern developments 🏙
Art deco is so timeless
I see it’s influence cropping up again and again
An earthquake wiped out a small town called Napier in my country (New Zealand) in 1931. When they rebuilt the town, everything was built in art deco style, it's really quite a time capsule and known as the art deco capital of NZ.
I think this is a really good introduction into Art Deco. I like how you describe it as a total style impacting everything from architecture and transportation to fashion and home appliances. I also appreciate that you distinguish between its two iterations between the skyscraper Art Deco and the latter streamline moderne.
When I was in New Zealand, we went to the Art Deco Captial of the Southern Hemisphere in Napier. The buildings were all of that design and era and it was just stunning
im studying for a history of design exam and these graphic videos been helping me a lot! such an underrated work. subscribed to this amazing channel :)
Amazing, and welcome! 🎉🎉🎉
Interesting to think about, its so associated with the 1920s yet it definitely doesn't seem dated
Art Deco is pure class.
The Chrysler Building is actually French Art Deco- that's why it's so fancy. The architect William Can Allen studied in Paris France before returning to the USA.
Thanks for the clarification!
"actually"
If you wanna see art deco arcitecture implemented in a cartoon-ish series, I highly recommend watching arcane! It blew my mind how beautiful this show is
Also the 90s Batman: The Animated Series show had tons of art deco. the cars looked pretty cool
yesss the buildings in that show are really so awesome
Arcane is a beautiful show in every way
I literally dream in Art Deco from time to time. Almost like my dreams take me back in time aesthetically speaking. Everything else will be modern (clothing, cars, etc) but the buildings I see in a lot of my dreams are in that style. I’m obsessed and when I am financially stable enough to own a home, I’m renovating it to look like it was taken from that time. ❤
I really like the refreshing design language of Art Deco and the whole historical context. I am saving up some money to get myself a Tudor 1926 watch that is inspired by Art Deco.
Amazing, good luck to get this Tudor watch asap! 💪🏻
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Woohooo 🥳🎉🎉🎉
This is very influential, informative, insightful, and inspirational! Great video! 😊👍
Amazing amazing video!!! thank you so much for sharing and all your research !
Excellent information well presented with accuracy and speed. Especially after just seeing the huge exhibition, Art Déco at Cité in Paris. Very illuminating. Thank you🎉👏
Thank you so much ☺️🙏🏻
Midtown Manhattan in NYC is filled with art deco everywhere! You can view these motifs on the old buildings around 34th street ( 5-8 av) and around grand central terminal on 42 street (by Lexington). That's also around the Empire state building and Chrysler building. Some of the office buildings in these areas are absolutely preserved in the lobbys, like where B & J Fabrics is located (525 7th Avenue). There is still gold furnishing on the floors and walls, and gold ornate pieces. Just beautiful!
What to say - its NEW YORK CITY 😍
@@CuriousMuse and I live and work there everyday 🙂
I agree completely that area of Manhattan has some of the best art deco buildings ever created. As an old Manhattanite I was saddened by the loss of the Airlines Terminal Building on 42nd Street that was an art deco masterpiece.
Lucky you! 😍
Oh, did they build something new there instead?
Thanks for a fabulous video!! I love everything about the art deco period.
Welcome! ☺️
That oppening sequence was fantastic!
For me, the most interesting thing is the comparison between art deco and brutalism. Both embodies progress and modernity. But one embodies luxury, vibrance, freedom, extravagance. While the other embodies the opposite. functionality, authority, equality, and simplicity. Two battling global ideologies with two battling architecture style.
It's beautiful ,colorful,elegant .
We will never see an art style like that again
My mom had one of the Streamline-inspired Electrolux vacuum cleaners. Lovely!
One of most recognized, remarkable Art Deco structure is the statue of Christ the Redeemer in Rio de Janeiro built in 1931.
And it’s so IMPRESSIVE 💪🏻
lots of iconic images - fantastic intro to AD
I once had the pleasure of visiting the city of Napier in the north island of New Zealand. It is a city that was rebuilt after a devastating earthquake in 1931. Due to the era, the prominent style of new structures was naturally art deco.
It is truly like going into a time machine to walk along its streets and see the building landmarks and also the promenade that is set on the cliffs overseeing the pacific.
The residents of the city are especially proud of this heritage, using other aspects of the art deco movement in their modern city design and personal style choices.
Any student or admirer of art deco design would be well served to spend some time there. It is truly a wonderful place.
Art Deco design got better and better through the 1930s and '40s, especially with vehicles, clothes and interior design.
great video. in the UK my apartment was in a former art deco factory building (it was listed so could not be knocked down). it was great fun. in the uk the "hoover building" was always shown to be the pinicle of art deco design.
Art deco is beloved by so many people because of how beautiful, practical, and well combined it is as an art form! You combine old style art, modern styles, and industrial technics (I.e.: streamlining and bold prints) all together to form a wonderful masterpiece!!
It is a shame that America didn’t build more Art Deco buildings.
3:53 As a Dutchman I'd like to point out that "De Stijl" should be pronounced with a regular "s" sound and not like a "sh" (which is a sound rarely used in Dutch. If it is, it's written as "sj" like in "sjoelen"). Really enjoyed the video though :)
Thank you for watching and the pronunciation correction 👍🏻
TOTALLY AWSSOME EDUCATION!!! THANKS FOR SHARING!!! I LEARNED SO MUCH!!!!
You’re welcome! ☺️
Good video, it was very informative, as for the type of art, to me I like the use of decorative patterns, shapes, not only architecture, but also on paintings, and artwork.
Thank you for watching! Glad to hear you found it informative
Art Deco is BRUTALIST!
My favorite building in NYC still remains The Chrysler Building. Though not as tall as some of the newer "skyscrapers," the overall aesthetic of The Chrysler Building is far-more classical and unique than other taller structures within the city.
Our favourite building too! 😍🌇
@@CuriousMuse You bet! The building is the bee's knees -- the cat's pajamas! -- A former Brooklynite.
I adore Art Deco, in virtually all forms.
I❤ art deco. It makes life fun,rich,worth living! Long live art deco!!!
That was so helpful! Thank you!
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Deco in all it's forms were everyday items to me as a child. From the furnishings in my grandparent's homes and some of the used stuff my own folks had as a young couple. The schools government buildings, department stores The little things that took on the streamlined style, many remaining in production being "traditional" compared to 50s designs until the new era of space came along in the 60s. Since I didn't have a horrible childhood, Deco/Streamline is my benchmark for what a thing should be. But Deco imitations today seem to be simply that.
This sounds pretty amazing to be surrounded by Deco style from the early days 😍
Excellent video. Enjoyed the succinct breakdown of the style. Art deco has also appeared in video games, most notably the city of Rapture in the games "Bioshock" and "Bioshock 2". These in turn were inspired by New York City architecture such as that around Rockefeller Center.
Thank you 🙏🏻- we urgently need to play Bioshock, heard so much about it!
Bioshock 1 & 2 are what got me into Art Deco. Now I’m in love with the style.
@@CuriousMuse I think Fallout has a lot of Art Deco too. Specifically Streamline Moderne
Art Deco takes me back in time - time before worries, time of beauty and fun...
How could you not mention - let alone not pay homage - to Miami Beach's world famous Art Deco District. No other place in the world has so many (hundreds, maybe thousands) of examples of Art Deco architecture. In fact by the 1940's and '50's there was a unique Deco spin-off unique to the world "MIMO" or Miami Moderne. This discussion of Art Deco is impoverished by this omission.
Such a great comment and thank you for your feedback! It's a very short video and the goal was to give a high-level overview of the movement rather than pay homage to the most famous Art Deco places. Perhaps, we can do it in our future video!
Just went through google maps....where are these hundred of examples?
I'm looking but can't find anything besides a movie theatre.
@@sfdko3291 Miami Beach. South beach. The art deco district. The streamline design seems to be the style that they used in Miami, afterall, the 30s is when the art deco in Miami became popular.
Thousands??? Miami beach is streamline, not Art Deco.
Leonetto Cappiello exemplifies the energy of the new modern era if not the geometric lines of art deco.
This is an art type that is worth appreciating.
Love the deco down in South Beach, FL
Floridaaaa 😍☀️🌊
God right? If only there was more like it 😭😭😭
Recently, I was gifted 2 beautiful matching lamps that look to be from the 1920s. Lovely frosted heavy glass, black onyx bases. I took them to someone who does appraisals to find out more. They are, indeed in Art Deco style from the 1920s. She said that as a pair in such perfect condition, that they could easily bring $2000 - $4500 at auction.
I just think they are beautiful, they cast a soft light in my bedroom at night.
The gift is the thing they gave you, not the act of giving it.
Art Deco is my absolute favorite.
LOVE LOVE LOVE ART DECO!!! MY FAV. COULD YOU DO A VIDEO OF ART DECO HOUSES , FLORIDA ART DECO HOTELS/,MOTELS AND ART DECO TRAVEL POSTERS ? 🤩😍🥰
Thank you - we will definitely consider! 😚
Great video thanks for uploading
Thanks for watching us🙏💙
my favorites are Miami Beach, Radio City Music Hall and the Chrysler Bldg.
Grazie ! Grande Art e !
Bioshock made me love art deco
I'm surprised that Napier, New Zealand isn't mentioned. It's known as the Art Deco capital of the world. There was a major earthquake in 1931 and a subsequent series of fires that destroyed much of the town. When the town was rebuilt much of it was done in the Art Deco style. Every February, Napier holds the annual Art Deco Festival with vintage cars, planes, trains, costumes, dining, Gatsby events, and tons more.
Uniquely Kiwi (New Zealand), Napier's Art Deco often includes Māori motifs and designs.
Perhaps an opportunity for us to make a whole new video about the beauty of Napier!
Here in New Mexico, there are several art deco buildings. However, New Mexico has a distinct style of art deco, that incorporates native aspects. It is very interesting, and anybody who's coming through New Mexico, I highly recommend that they stop it some of these buildings and take some pictures. Another building, not here in New Mexico, that I would highly recommend people to visit is the New Orleans Lakefront Airport.
Art Deco is one of the few Architectural styles that uses geometric designs, and secondary colors without being gaudy or appearing cheap. The lines used in many of its drawings and paintings remind me of Taulouse Lautrec’s art work depicting the Moulon Rouge in Paris.
I liked the fonts they used in that era as well.
I love art deco so much😘🥰
Love me some art deco.
Art deco if one of the finest of humankind
😍
I live in Detroit and we have some fantastic examples of Art deco in the form of the Fisher Building and the Guardian Building on top of many, many lesser known examples.
I ❤️ Detroit!
Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City has one of the most amazing combinations of Art Déco and Art Nouveau. It is gorgeous, especially the main theatre curtain made of stained glass
It's fun. It makes me smile. AND it's nice to look at. It's that simple for me
This is video very amazing.
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I spent a couple of years (roughly 2017-2020) trying to bring an updated Gatsby-inspired Art Deco style to my home, but the effort was exhausting. Unfortunately, most of the iconic furniture didn't survive the period, and what did survive was not of the best quality. Sourcing good pieces was extremely difficult. The period was very short in comparison to other style movements (thanks to the Depression and WWII), so there's never been a lot to choose from anyway. In addition, the various "Deco Revival" efforts (particularly the one that occurred briefly in the 1980s) were never executed very well, and the collections look cheap and lacked both quality and integrity. I've spotted a few Deco Revival type things recently (Theodore Alexander's are excellent), but they fall into two very distinct categories: 1) wildly expensive and unattainable, or 2) low-end knockoffs that won't last the year.
I finally gave up and went back to English Traditional. Since I can't have The Great Gatsby, I'll just stick with Chariots of Fire.
Nice choices -- props.. What do you think about the Arts and Crafts movement of California . . . (?)
Heya, as you said Art Deco came to life in France and Belgium, but you mainly showed American Style Art Deco in this video. Art Deco wasn't only the luxury you show, and if you want to see art deco in everyday life, I advise you to search for art deco houses in Lille or the Nord department (we're right between France and Belgium !)
Just checked it out - Art Deco buildings in Lille look amazing 🤩👍🏻
@@CuriousMuse Saint-Quentin and Reims have a huge lot of art deco buildings, but they're in bad shape notably in Saint-Quentin
Please consider a vid focusing on Art Deco fashion that features the jewelry, makeup, Paul Poiret, Georges Barbier and Erte, and the variety of new fabrics available to couture houses.
Thanks for these great suggestions!
You also could have featured great clips from Films of the 1930s to show the contemporary aesthetic.
The Gatsby film is a modern and very, very stylized interpretation.
But, When can only feature so much in 9 minutes! Thank you so much
It was the perfect cobination of modern teclology and the ornaments of the old world
I loved the video and would to see one on MCM.
Tamara Lempicka! Thanks! I was trying to remember her name for months!
Great review!
Dont forget Erte! Art deco in theater ands film design was a huge part of how the style became popular.
ArtDeco may have borrowed heavily from ancient Mesopotamian and Egyptian and Greek art, but in 1920 it got a make-over and was thoroughly refined. It became something altogether NEW!
In the 1950's it was thrown away. Everything became clunky and dark and dreary. Even fashion-- damn you Dior! The only thing that still looked a little bit ArtDeco was the mid-fifties' Picasso-esque palette coffee table...
Fascinating , fascinant, j'adore et en plus je vois des photos de ma maman , enfant de ma grand-mère...
You forgot to mention South Florida's art deco architecture. Especially, South Beach, Miami!
My love of Art Deco started on board the Queen Mary.
I love this style….your stories are really great….
So nice to hear! What stories did you like on our channel?
Tulsa, OK is a treasure trove of Art Deco. The Art Deco movement coincided with an oil boom in NE Oklahoma, and a number of wonderful Art Deco buildings were built. The Philcade, Boston Avenue Methodist Church, Will Rogers High School, and the Pythian Building are just some of Tulsa's Art Deco treasures.
Very nice. Copacabana (neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro city) has a lot of Art Déco architectura. There is a tourist guide called Rafael Bokor, and he shows several of these buildings.
I live in Kansas City MO. When the movie "Mr. and Mrs. Bridge" was filmed here, they took advantage of the ArtDeco in the Jackson County Courthouse downtown for some indoor scenes. City Hall across the street is no slouch, either.
They are the conservative, substantial looking government style. The courthouse has some Nouveauish elements in the interior decoration as well.
Vancouver visitors must come see the Marine Building, a real AD masterpiece with unique Canadian details
Thank you, Curious Muse, for taking me to 1920s New York. After watching your captivating video, I found myself swept up in a fantasy of dancing wildly in a lavishly adorned Art Deco-style nightclub, enjoying festivities and sipping cocktails during the Roaring Twenties, a time of great social and economic change. I wore all sorts of aesthetic Art Deco ornaments, though they were less intricate and delicate than their Art Nouveau counterparts. My fictitious filthy rich boyfriend or husband, who also happened to own a breathtaking green Bugatti and an Art Deco-style building like the Plaza Hotel in New York, would gift me with these stunning pieces of jewelry. Oh, to dream!😏😄
For me, singing and dancing are actually the backbone of my simple daily life, bringing joy and energy, in what are not only a means of expressing myself but also provide a guaranteed little patch of delight. Their strongest selling point is that they don't cost an arm and a leg.🙃
You are welcome! Speaking of the journey back in time to 1920 NYC, our first video on this channel is exactly about it 😅. You can also see the animation was different as we just started and tried to figure out our way on this platform 💪🏻
@@CuriousMuse
Ok, I'll check it out. I might get caught up in a dancing craze again~ 😁😄.. Have a good one ..
it's it's interior design that does it for me ❤
Same here!
Thank You so much 😃♥️🙏
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I love Art Deco I have my apartment decorated in that style
Examples in Pittsburgh include the Koppers Building, the Gulf Tower, and the Urban Room in the William Penn Hotel.