{"id":6973,"date":"2021-03-14T15:42:59","date_gmt":"2021-03-14T22:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/?p=6973"},"modified":"2022-03-25T16:11:00","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T23:11:00","slug":"resurgence-art-deco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/lighting-design\/resurgence-art-deco\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding an Art Deco Ethos to Your Design"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Art Deco, which precedes the mid-20th century rise and prevalence of modern architecture and contemporary design has had an indelible impact on American culture\u2014and it can be relatively simple to implement in contemporary design.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Consider its history including these iconic Art Deco buildings:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul style=\"list-style-type: circle;\">\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">The Chrysler Building in Manhattan<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">LA\u2019s Bullocks Wilshire Building in Koreatown<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">The Eastern Columbia Building in Los Angeles<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Griffith Park Observatory in Hollywood<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Carbide and Carbon Building in Chicago<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">The RCA building in New York City\u2019s Rockefeller Center<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">The Wiltern on LA\u2019s Wilshire Boulevard<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">The Pantages on Hollywood Boulevard<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6981\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6981\" style=\"width: 1860px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EasternLAArtDeco.jpeg\" class=\"mfp-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6981 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EasternLAArtDeco.jpeg\" alt=\"The Eastern Columbia Building in Los Angeles\" width=\"1860\" height=\"1415\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=1860\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EasternLAArtDeco.jpeg 1860w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=400\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EasternLAArtDeco.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=1024\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EasternLAArtDeco.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=768\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EasternLAArtDeco.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=1536\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EasternLAArtDeco.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=370\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EasternLAArtDeco.jpeg 370w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=800\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EasternLAArtDeco.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=20\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EasternLAArtDeco.jpeg 20w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=185\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EasternLAArtDeco.jpeg 185w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=740\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EasternLAArtDeco.jpeg 740w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=1600\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EasternLAArtDeco.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=63\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/EasternLAArtDeco.jpeg 63w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1860px) 100vw, 1860px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6981\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Eastern Columbia Building in Los Angeles<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Note that LA\u2019s Wiltern and Pantages theaters, both constructed between 1929 and 1931, combine natural themes, such as clouds, on front curtains with angular geometric sunbursts on ceilings and highly stylized murals\u2014all in vibrant colors. Louisiana\u2019s state Capitol in Baton Rouge, according to Carla Breeze in her book <em>American Art Deco: <\/em><\/span><em style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">Architecture and R<\/em><em style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\">egionalism<\/em><span style=\"font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino; font-size: 14pt;\"> (W.W. Norton and Company, 2003), takes this theme a step further, incorporating into its exterior entrance Lorado Taft\u2019s sculpture \u201cof an allegorical Spirit of Adventure who is surrounded by [explorers] De Soto and La Salle, a Franciscan friar, Native Americans, a frontiersman and an American colonist.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6996\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6996\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LA_BatonRouge_StateCapital.jpeg\" class=\"mfp-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6996 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LA_BatonRouge_StateCapital.jpeg\" alt=\"Louisiana\u2019s state Capitol in Baton Rouge\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=1920\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LA_BatonRouge_StateCapital.jpeg 1920w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=400\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LA_BatonRouge_StateCapital.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=1024\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LA_BatonRouge_StateCapital.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=768\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LA_BatonRouge_StateCapital.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=1536\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LA_BatonRouge_StateCapital.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=370\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LA_BatonRouge_StateCapital.jpeg 370w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=800\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LA_BatonRouge_StateCapital.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=20\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LA_BatonRouge_StateCapital.jpeg 20w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=185\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LA_BatonRouge_StateCapital.jpeg 185w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=740\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LA_BatonRouge_StateCapital.jpeg 740w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=1600\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LA_BatonRouge_StateCapital.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=72\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LA_BatonRouge_StateCapital.jpeg 72w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6996\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Louisiana\u2019s state Capitol in Baton Rouge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">William Van Alen, the Chrysler Building\u2019s architect, famously added a simple and stylish spire to make this great, iconic American skyscraper the world\u2019s tallest building\u2014a distinction the New York City building briefly held when it was first constructed. According to author Christopher Innes, in his <em>Designing Modern America<\/em> (Yale University Press, 2005):<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6977\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6977\" style=\"width: 2560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chysler-building1-scaled.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6977 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chysler-building1-scaled.webp\" alt=\"The Chrysler Building in Manhattan\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1706\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=2560\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chysler-building1-scaled.webp 2560w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=400\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chysler-building1-scaled.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=1024\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chysler-building1-scaled.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=768\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chysler-building1-scaled.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=1536\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chysler-building1-scaled.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=2048\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chysler-building1-scaled.webp 2048w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=370\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chysler-building1-scaled.webp 370w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=800\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chysler-building1-scaled.webp 800w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=20\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chysler-building1-scaled.webp 20w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=185\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chysler-building1-scaled.webp 185w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=740\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chysler-building1-scaled.webp 740w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=1600\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chysler-building1-scaled.webp 1600w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=72\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/chysler-building1-scaled.webp 72w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6977\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Chrysler Building in Manhattan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">\u201c[T]here was [a] famous competition between the bank tower at 40 Wall Street and the Chrysler Building. Even the way this [competition] was won had immense appeal. In a bravura display, Van Alen, the Chrysler architect, surreptitiously had a 185-foot spire fabricated inside the gleaming steel ellipses that apparently formed the crown. As soon as the top of the bank was finished, triumphantly outdoing its rival by just two floors, the spire (all seven tons of it) was shoved up through the peak to make Chrysler the tallest building in the world \u2013 a title it held only briefly, being overtopped by the Empire State Building less than a year later.\u201d<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">The Chrysler Building, Breeze observes in <em>American Art Deco<\/em>, \u201cincludes a radiating zigzag motif on the pinnacle\u2026a modernistic allusion to the Statue of Liberty\u2019s crown.\u201d The Chrysler Building\u2019s iconic topping, she writes, was created from sheet metal \u201cwith exceptional strength and high resistance to corrosion produced by the Crucible Steel Company.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Art Deco developed in the United States primarily thanks to theatrical designers Joseph Urban with Norman Bel Geddes, both of whom Innes observes \u201cplayed a major role in forming this new and uniquely American variant on the visual definition of modernity.\u201d Urban and Bel Geddes, who also created car designs for Chrysler, set and dominated major U.S. commercial and industrial modern design in the periods immediately before and after World War 2. While European Art Deco, following from the Art Nouveau movement, favored primitive features of Central African carvings and masks, Hollywood and theater design echoed Westernized decadence of the roaring Twenties.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6985\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6985\" style=\"width: 1600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/CarbideandCarbon.jpeg\" class=\"mfp-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6985 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/CarbideandCarbon.jpeg\" alt=\"Carbide and Carbon Building in Chicago\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1076\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=1600\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/CarbideandCarbon.jpeg 1600w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=400\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/CarbideandCarbon.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=1024\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/CarbideandCarbon.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=768\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/CarbideandCarbon.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=1536\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/CarbideandCarbon.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=370\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/CarbideandCarbon.jpeg 370w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=800\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/CarbideandCarbon.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=20\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/CarbideandCarbon.jpeg 20w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=185\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/CarbideandCarbon.jpeg 185w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=740\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/CarbideandCarbon.jpeg 740w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=71\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/CarbideandCarbon.jpeg 71w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6985\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Carbide and Carbon Building in Chicago<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Find and read more information on Art Deco in libraries, archives, museums and design centers. This dynamic design popularized building with reinforced concrete, a departure from using classical architecture\u2019s columns and pillars. Art Deco which first captured imaginations at the 1925 Paris Exhibition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Art Deco architectural elements:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Use jagged geometrical shapes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Adopt opulence<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Unify the color scheme<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Use forms abstracted from nature, i.e., floral and plant<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Create blank but highly polished surfaces in paintings<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Apply lavish use of precious materials, such as silver, chrome<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Exaggerate curves or veneers with sharply angular patterns<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Contrast using different shapes, such as circular mirrors reflecting each other on either side of a room with a wall paneled in leather-quilted geometric squares<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Use varying textures<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Evenly execute Art Deco across complete spaces\u2014layout, accessories and furniture, including lamps and teacups<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Use triangles and zigzag patterns<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\"><strong>Art Deco in Lighting<\/strong><br \/>\nAlways remember to integrate the proper use of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/lighting-design\/what-are-architectural-lighting-fixtures\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">architectural lighting<\/a>\u2014which is a crucial part of Art Deco\u2019s design history. Consider <em>The Light<\/em> \u2014 \u201ca pageant\u201d, Innes writes in his book, \u201cdesigned by Joseph Urban for Norman Bel Geddes\u2019 water theater. Light, in fact, was a major theme for both Urban and Bel Geddes, and another of Bel Geddes\u2019 designs for the [World\u2019s] fair was a Fountain of Light.<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6988\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6988\" style=\"width: 593px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12217_main.jpeg\" class=\"mfp-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6988 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12217_main.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"593\" height=\"560\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=593\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12217_main.jpeg 593w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=400\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12217_main.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=370\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12217_main.jpeg 370w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=20\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12217_main.jpeg 20w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=185\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12217_main.jpeg 185w, https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/fit=contain,format=webp,quality=80,width=51\/https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/12217_main.jpeg 51w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 593px) 100vw, 593px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6988\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alconlighting.com\/12217.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art Deco Style Commercial Lighting<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">\u201cThis was a long narrow cascade of water, flowing from a towering fountain over a series of steps through the middle of a translucent dome supported solely by an invisible cushion of hydrogen in the apex. Onto its curving surface, the shadows of the people walking by the water, lit from beneath in a spectrum of colors, would be projected, \u201ca human panorama seen from the outside,\u201d as Bel Geddes noted on the sketches, adding, \u201cin the beginning there was LIGHT.\u201d The biblical phrase is a graphic illustration of his idealistic aims for using the fair as the catalyst for a new society, casting the artist as God, creating the modern world.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">\u201cThis quasi-religious glorification of the artist cultural role may well seem over the top; and there is a real disproportion between such grandiose notions of social engineering and the narrowly aesthetic, primarily theatrical means supposed to achieve it here. In any case, although the vision was imaginatively compelling \u2014 Urban\u2019s set model for <em>The Light<\/em> won a prize at the annual exhibition a the Architectural League in New York \u2014 it turned out to be unrealizable, not on technical grounds but due to global conditions far beyond the control of either Urban or Bel Geddes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Art Deco\u2019s legacy endures with striking designs. For example, Miami\u2019s newest hospital building design\u2014bathed in natural light, made with alluring curves and aligned with geography\u2014fully optimizes Art Deco design. The hospital\u2019s design team, according to this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.architectmagazine.com\/design\/interior-design\/a-hospital-complex-that-channels-miami-beach_o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article in <em>Architect<\/em> magazine<\/a>, insisted on it. \u201c[T]he design [is] based on an ocean aesthetic [and] a reverence for the deep-rooted Art Deco heritage on the island&#8230;\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'Book Antiqua', Palatino;\">Enjoy designing your space with Art Deco in mind, too.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Art Deco, which precedes the mid-20th century rise and prevalence of modern architecture and contemporary design has had an indelible impact on American culture\u2014and it can be relatively simple to implement in contemporary design. 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