The new Art Deco movement
July 22, 2010mike 7 Comments »
Starting in the roaring twenties and going through the mid 1930s, the art deco movement was king. With its long lines and futuristic look architectural masterpieces include the Chrysler building in New York. The movement included not just buildings, but car design as well.
One would think the splendor of this design would have ended with the stock market crash, but it extended clear through the Great Depression.
Today we sit at the end of the worst decade in the history of the stock market and yet signs of art deco are cropping back up. Two great examples from the motorized world include the Victory Vision and the Lincoln MKX (and the entire new Lincoln line really). They both have fine details and flowing lines will invoking feelings of the future (somewhat retro-futuristic today) but even eighty years later one can’t help but look at the art deco movement as a vision of the future.
I truly hope this design style continues as we look to a bright future of grandeur and cease focusing on the immediate past.
Here’s to the New Art Deco Movement!
July 23rd, 2010 at 11:47 pm
So do people look to some fantastical future when the economy is bad? Sounds like a business opportunity. Let’s bring back Flash Gordon!
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