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Art Deco

-Glasgow

Style

Beresford Hotel, Glasgow, March 2023   Copyright Debbie Smyth, 27 January 2023 Posted as part of Becky’s Geometric January …
Style

-London

Art Deco in detail

Florence Hall at RIBA, London, November 2023 This wooden Dominion screen was designed by the English sculptor, Dennis Dunlop, who used the Art Deco style to show off famous architects, […]

-Glasgow

Streamlined

The Beresford, Glasgow   – Copyright Debbie Smyth, 5 March 2023 Posted as part of Silent Sunday …

-Edinburgh

I’m a fan of Art Deco

St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh, February 2022 Interestingly, it was the lights outside the old Scottish Office that alerted me to the fact that this building is Art Deco. I think […]

-Portugal

Shutters down

Casa de Serralves, Porto, December 2021   Copyright Debbie Smyth, 25 January 2022 Posted as part of Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge and Thursday Doors …

-London

Daily Express

Daily Express Building, Fleet Street, London, November 2021   – Copyright Debbie Smyth, 28 November 2021 Posted as part of Silent Sunday …

-Cornwall

Jubilee Lido

This outdoor pool opened in May 1935 and continues to be a huge social asset for the people of Penzance. It has an unusual triangular enclosure, with its walls designed […]
Jubilee Lido

-New York

Double Art deco

This Art Deco skyscraper opened in May 1930 and enjoyed the status of tallest building in the world, until the Empire State Building grabbed the title just eleven months later. […]
Double Art deco

-London

Cats, Pharaohs and Tobacco

Carreras Factory (opened 1928), Camden, London, February 2016 These large black cats and Egyptian columns belong to a 1920s art deco building in north London; a cigarette factory, no less. […]