A Week-End Wonderweb 05-03 (Art Déco)

In chronological terms, Art Déco was the next major art movement to take the world by storm after Art Nouveau; spanning post-WWI to WWII, with its aerodynamic, fluid, streamlined cruise-ship lines borrowed by architecture (from American flagship skyscrapers to Le Corbusier's modernist structures, via countless other references) and rolled out to the Applied and Graphic Arts, enchanting towns, cities, interiors and art lovers with a visually-pleasing design rhythm destined to become no less than a quintessential 20th century classic.

Sources (top page down):

• 'Crescent City Oranges' fruit crate label (c1930s), featured on Vintagraph
  
• Fauteuil Virgule (c1922) by designer Francis Jourdain, to be auctioned by Christie's (France) on 29/03/2011, as part of Château Gourdon's vast Art Déco collection
• The Rotunda Bar at The Midland Hotel, Morecambe (U.K.), which has recently been refurbished back to its former glory
• 'From the Chrysler Building, New York' (Chrysler Building's gargoyle detail), photography by George Tice (1978), featured by The Afterimage Gallery
• Tamara de Lempicka, 'Le Téléphone II' (1930), exhibited at the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne, Australia) in 2008, and auctioned by Sotheby's New York (May 2009)

Further resources:

• Decopix, dedicated to Art Déco architecture and design
• Heritage, Art Deco Britain
• Step-by-step renovation of Stockport's Plaza Super Cinema (1932)
• MDPL (Miami Design Preservation League)
• Destination360, Miami Art Déco Historic District
• 'Art Deco Buildings' blog.