Art Deco is a very slippery label and can encompass quite a wide variety
of styles, as well as flowing out of Art Nouveau and into Art Moderne. Some peg it's timeline as beginning with the 1925 Exposition
Internationale des Arts Decoratifs Industriels et Modernes (say that 10
times real fast), but I've also seen a 1904 train station declared to be
one of the first Art Deco buildings. And of course there were varying
cultural manisfestations of Art Deco around the world, French (the Boyd
Theatre's interior in considered French Art Deco), American and another
dialect in the Southwest US for instance.
if the 1925 exposition was about showcasing existing design motivations as well as promoting new ones, this could explain why there's no hard and fast cut-off dates for art deco? in any case, it's true for any style, this fuzzy blurring-from-the-preceding-and-into-the-next, along with national/regional variations...
btw, I have a friend who insists on pronouncing it [something like] 'ar DAY-keh' rather than 'art DECK-oh' -- and I rather like that, as it pays quiet homage to the original exposition's french title. but sometimes it's annoying, like when you hear van *COUGH* when you're expecting van GO.
BTW, the Miami Design Preservation League's Annual Art Deco Weekend is coming up Jan 14-16 along South Beach. I was down there 3 years ago during a January heat wave, with temps in the 80s every day, but SoBe is a Mecca of Deco anytime (I hope to get back down there this winter).
just curious, jayfar, why do you like art deco?
......... laserbeam� [aka ray]
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