Yes, i think the same

Yep, bring back the 20's art ... ...like Biedermeier, or Rococo, or Baroque, or Mannerism 😄

Hell yeah.

Very astute observation , Ol' Chap !

Yes, I will start on my bedroom make-over

Art Deco and gothic style always put my mind at ease.

I'm not much of a fan of art but when it comes to anything Art Deco it makes me stop and admire it. Like your comment.

Art Deco is visually pleasing but it was used in some cases to substitute style for quality. I can tell you that the quality of American furniture degraded overall in the Art Deco period with veneers replacing solid wood furniture. Thin slices of expensive wood can be arranged in an interesting design while the wood beneath is of a cheap, inferior quality. The "sleek" Art Deco design of buildings also meant cheaper construction costs because "sleek" can be construed as "uncomplicated" and easy to construct. Compare the intricate detail of a Medieval cathedral with a "sleek" modern high rise that is devoid of detail. Overall, less ornamental detail = cheaper construction costs. You see that trend in a lot of Art Deco architecture. Fine art merged with business needs in the late 19th Century to produce Art Nouveau, a prototype of graphic ats. That part of the History of Art became a harlot of Capitalism intended to persuade people to buy what they would not otherwise buy. Art Deco continued that tradition of art prostituting itself to business but not just in advertisement but in the design of the products that the advertisements were selling as well. ... jkulik919@gmail.com

Seems like in the past they paid more attention to aesthetics. Now almost everything looks utilitarian.

Beautiful comment. 💖🌝💐💎🏆

visual confection. perfect.

The Chinese Theather.

This trait is due to the fact King Tut's tomb was discovered in 1920.

@ Gloria Hanes. I was going to say the same except 1922. In the Valley of the Kings, King Guy's tomb was undisturbed a sensational find. -Virginia

Similar thing for San Antonio with the Aztec and Majestic, more so the former

@@gloriahanes6490 explain the connection

u live in the hague?

The jackboots of greed....

Mina Emad So cool! What are you studying?

Olinda Torres probably architecture

Agreed

@@macoli6493 thanks, i'm studying interior design (interior architecture) but i like anything related to art and design

@@brookuth2212 yeah, interior design (interior architecture) but my master discussed the relation between all kinds of art in Art Deco

Thanks for that. As a Canadian I wasn't aware of some of the buildings you listed. I'm off to google the lot!

I think the General Electric Building was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, he added his own twist to Art Deco.

@@gregmilliken5538 No. GE building was first 'RCA Victor' during construction, and is 1931 by Cross and Cross architects. There is only one FLW highrise in existence, in BARTLESVILLE, Oklahoma.

I feel the same, although I see Art Deco’s precursor Art Nouveau as the birth of this true height of design. No other art style compares. That is for certain.

I love Art Nouveau and Art Deco. When we compare them with the styles of today; the simply appalling architecture being designed....society has become visually bland.

that's right

Googie was fun but deco speaks to your soul

@@danialhowe9814 the funny cousin of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne

Streamline is more part of the International style than it is Art Deco.

Streamline is an american style derived from Art Deco.

@@agomodern streamline moderne was popular in the US during the 30s and 40s. It stemmed from Art Deco/Art Moderne

Well see!

Same here lol

I would love to live in Tim Burton’s Gotham.

It was beautifully illustrated.

That sounds really nice! 👍👍

I HAVE THE SAME DREAM.👍

Nouveau styles evolved into the Deco styles during depression era years. You can see them blended together in a lot of the architecture of that era. 🌻

I want art deco inside of a castle/chateau. So I can have both. If I'm lucky I'll do it separately. 🎶Dream on Dream until your dreams come true. 🎶

Well by the mid 1930s art deco was already morphing into something new, the streamlined modernist aesthetic. By the 1940s streamline had pretty much taken full hold. It was far less angular, featuring rounded curves and often a sort of stretched out and skewed look to give the appearance of speed. Look at the Duchess of Hamilton train, or the 1948 Buick Streamliner car, or the Blytheville Greyhound Bus Station, to see what I mean. You can see how that curvy, futuristic, look morphed later on into the googie aesthetic in the 1950s (many today would call it "retro-futuristic" if they didn't know the name was googie) which by that point was quite far removed from art deco. Googie was thought to be a bit too kitsch after a while, so a tamer modernist style and brutalist style became dominant in architecture and decor from then on.

@@LaylaVaughan Very interesting. Never heard of 'googie ' before. I get what you're saying. I have Pic of a tram in Wellington nz 1960 and looks very retrofuturistic. Tram could be late 40s 50s. I know art deco is a variety of styles and I see now how that changed through the 40s as well. Thanks for the thoughtful and helpful reply.

@@LaylaVaughan I looked it up. "Googie". I geddit. Makes sense. I've long thought of it as 'space age' or 'American futurism'. Now I understand it's got its own name. Thanks.

@@markcarey8426 Yeah, art deco, streamline moderne, and googie all were very forward looking styles. Googie is pretty disconnected aesthetically despite being a natural extension of streamline moderne. But that makes sense, art deco and streamline were all about progress, especially, technological progress and industry. With the advent of the atomic age in the 1950s, the possibilities of science and technology seemed endless. There was talk of one day making it to outer space. UFOs were fresh in the popular imagination. The newfangled atomic power seemed to have great potential. So, the googie style was a natural reflection of that quantum leap in technological progress just as streamline moderne's sheared curves reflected the increased speed of cars and trains. Anyway, sorry for rambling, I just love these styles! They encapsulate periods of social and technological change and hope while remaining utitilitarian. Later styles just feel either boringly utilitiarian or just odd for the sake of being odd (postmodern) and feel disconnected from anything meaningful that I connect with.

@@LaylaVaughan Great ramble. You make good observations. Love the comment about " even one day go to outer space". I see the continuity now. Didn't actually get stopped by the war, morphed. Though the optimism of speed and machinery did come with some sub clauses after the use of 'speed and machinery" during that war. But then space and atomic power were the next bright spots on the horizon. And then of course you don't want to get too close to some of those 'bright spots'. I agree about some postmodernism style. A lot of it seems more like playing with engineering.

Not prophetic, but propaganda to shape opinion towards art deco and away from the rural social view. It was to change the country from conservative rural toward city view.

yes,the same here,,my master is about Art Deco, and it's interesting to hear how other people are seeing it

Both the Chrysler and the Woolworth Building were the tallest in the world when they were built.

Continued... Descriptions were spot-on. If you're interested in fsshion check out Erte, the best designer of the period. I was honored to meet him when he was 90. Love your channel! Shows your interests in all aspects of the period.

As a non American, i always find it interesting how Americans always put the country after the name of the city. "Paris, France". Other English speakers outside of America would just say "Paris". It's very doubtful that you'd be speaking about anywhere else but the one in France.

@@th8257 ...Beg to differ, we have Paris, Michigan in America. We also have Paris, Texas in America and the list goes on to be exact we have 22 cities in America named Paris.

Ms Baker should also be remembered for her tireless love & care for children forced to exist in a landscape of war & poverty. She adopted 12 kids...

@@th8257 Most US states have many cities or towns named after the great cities of the world, as well as municipalities of all sizes that were commonly where the colonist/immigrant who named the place came from. For example, there are 16 cities named Athens* in the US (as well as one in Canada), and 23 named Manchester* in the US (and one in Jamaica). To prevent confusion, we developed the habit of automatically including enough information to accurately identify the place we're mentioning. "Other English speakers outside of America" live in more limited geographic contexts. *Figures per Wikivoyage.

If you can find a copy of lost horizons about the hidden valley in the Himalayas called Shrangli La the building there was exquisite Art Deco.

Well spotted !

Glad you liked it :)

@@The1920sChannel there was a European version called Euro deco mainly posters the guy with the top hat in the monopoly game is Euro deco

Close to the sun also

@@tropicalhorizongaming5459 Yes, I didn't know about it before.

@@beedykh2235 all those games are unique in that way, not many ones tend to go for the art deco- Oh yeah and prey(2017)

Prey (2017) is also art deco, but even better because it is in space 😏

That makes me wish for "decopunk" games. Like cyberpunk, but with art deco aesthetics instead of 80s.

Thanks so much. I'm glad you enjoy my videos!

It came from the term Arts Décoratifs in 1925 in France at the art exhibition. Art Deco is just a shorted phrase of that. But yes, Art Moderne or Streamline Moderne is also what was common tongue in the 20s and 30s

@@pbower4378 I know where it came from but the term "art deco" was not actually used before 1966 when it was used by the art historian, Bevis Hillier, as the title of an exhibition on the subject at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris ("Les Années 25 : Art déco, Bauhaus, Stijl, Esprit nouveau") The term was later used by Hillier as the title of a book published by Studio Vista in 1968 and the phrase only became popularly known as such after this date. Before that it had only been used by Le Corbusier with an s (Expo: Arts Deco) as shorthand for the exhibition itself rather than the style.

Thank you so much!

Thanks for watching!

Agreed.

"actually"

@@jamesmcinnis208 what does that mean James

@@AladdinLeeGrantRutledgeCollar You've never studied Art Deco. What is the meaning of "actually"?

@@jamesmcinnis208 It feels like kind of a gaping hole in my art education

@@jamesmcinnis208I intended the word for emphasis, but I can see how you'd be confused without more context about me.