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ART DECO
Art Deco is a
movement in style, fashion and architecture that took the late 1920s and
1930s Western world by storm. Coming into a civilization completely
changed by one world war and the hint of another, an economic
depression, opportunities for women and the rise of technology and the
automobile, Art Deco celebrated modernism and rejected traditional
styles. The term Art Deco came
from the title of the celebrated exhibit of
decorative
and industrial arts conference held in Paris in 1925.
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Art Deco was coined in 1968 with the title of the book by Bevis
Hillier
on decorative arts of the 20's and 30's. This movement embraced "The
Ancient past to the Distant
future".
Art Deco remains
our only shorthand description of the decorative arts of
the
years between the wars (WWI and WWII).
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The movement was spawned in
the early years of the century in Austria and
Germany
as an alternative to the faltering Jugendstil based on Germanic logic and
geometry, in contrast to Art Nouveau litany of flowers and maidens in
neighboring France. It placed emphasis
on functional design applicable to
mass
production. Ornamental was given secondary status. This movement was a for
runner of the strain of Art Deco that took root in the decorative arts in
the U.S. in the late 20's. His crisp
angular functionalism earned it at the
time
the label "Modernism".
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The second principle
decorative movement, and the one that is today most readily identified as
Art Deco, was the highly colorful and playful style
which
ruled Paris in the immediate post-world War I years. Were it not for
the 1914-1918 hiatus, this movement
would have played itself out a lot sooner,
but
it is seen now as an extension, rather than the anti-thesis of Art Nouveau
Vernacular, which its disciples had set
out to eradicate. It provided the last
splendidly
stlfindulgert decorative style, a style designed, according to a
recent critic, "for luxury and
leisure" for comfort and Conviviality, like
the
archetypal drink of the period, the cock tail enjoyed while laughing at
you. identified in the text as early
French Art Deco, the style arrived in
the
U.S. before the older more Austere, Australian German Version.
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The Kalakala is the world's
first streamlined ferry. It's exterior features
exemplify
it's world class Art Deco style. The interior is as splendid with
the structural designs as well as all
the original 1920's and 1930's
furnishings.
The Kalakala restoration and preservation will reflect upon
recreating
the Art - Deco era significant past!
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3D Model created by Russ
Knudsen, 2004
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