Celebrity Apprentice: Art Deco Buildings

Yes, I love all there is about the Art Deco Period. I notice it everywhere I go. I see it on TV and in Magazines. I see it in buildings and in Furnishings. Although I've posted about it before here and here, I'm not anywhere NEAR from stopping. My first exposure to Art Deco Architecture: I remember it like it was yesterday......(❊harp playing.... begin dream sequence...)

The Pan Pacific Building in Los Angeles (1936)

Recogonize it yet?

How 'bout now?

ahhh, yes. XANADU.

I was in 5th grade when this movie came out and to an 11 year old girl, there is nothing better than disco rollerskating + Olivia Newton John. But tell me who doesn't remember seeing the Pan American building for the 1st time. This movie is FILLED with Art Deco nods, thanks to co-star Gene Kelly who is fabulous in it.

Dallas is lucky to have probably the largest and arguably one of the most important group of Art Deco Buildings at our Fair Park.

image: Frank Vasquez

above two images: brokenpiggybank/flickr

Buffalo City Hall, NY

Ambassador Hotel, Staten Island NY

Brooklyn Public Library, NY

But while I was in Chicago recently, amongst the plethora of Art Noveau Buildings, was this lovely Deco gem.

image: cashon & co

And of course there are the bits + pieces that adorn these buildings that make me go crazy:

On the OUTSIDE:

Pair of glass & bronze doors, American. 1929 From Bullock's Wilshire Buillding Los Angeles, Donald Parkinson Architect/CITY/1st dibs

Scinde Building 1932-1933

above two images: artdecobuildings

Hermann & Market Streets, San Francisco. Image: David Thompson/dct66/flickr

AND, on the INSIDE:

above 3 images: David Thompson/dct66/flickr

See a theme in the above three pictures? Hard to believe this is the interior of a Church. I am so used to the typical Traditional Sanctuary Architecture, so the images from the Église St-Esprit in District du Vieux-Rosemont, Montreal really leaves me inspired.

And speaking of inspiration.....