Here is a beauty of art deco architecture from the Tassel House in Brussels.
This is drawn from a mysterious boxed set of individual architectural detail pages I picked up at the White Elephant resale shop. I found it while researching Chicago’s 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, which is a monster of a topic in and of itself. I’ll post more about it in the coming week, this here is just a little teaser.
December 4, 2007 at 7:46 pm |
Your alive! Word to that.
January 22, 2009 at 6:15 am |
the picture says art nouveau, is that not different to art deco?????
January 22, 2009 at 8:16 am |
Hello lynda,
You are absolutely correct, Art Deco was a mildly harsher artform and came to the fore some years later, around WWI. To my eye they are of a piece, though Art Deco often features sharper, less integrated geometries. Sorry about the inaccuracy. I suppose mine is the second factual error found on the Interwebs.