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Streamline Moderne, sometimes referred to by either name alone, was a late branch of the Art Deco

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Streamline Moderne, sometimes referred to by either name alone, was a late branch of the Art Deco

Art Deco

Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film....
design style. Its architectural style emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements (such as railings and porthole windows). It reached its height in 1937.

The style was the first to incorporate electric light into architectural structure. In the First Class dining room of the SS Normandie

SS Normandie

Steam Ship Normandie was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France, for the French Line Compagnie G?n?rale Transatlantique. When launched in 1932 she was the largest and fastest ship in the world, and she maintains the distinction of being the most powerful steam turbo-electric propelled passenger ship ever built....
, fitted out 1933 – 35, twelve tall pillars of Lalique glass and 38 columns lit from within illuminated the room. The Strand Palace Hotel foyer (1930), preserved from demolition by the Victoria and Albert Museum

Victoria and Albert Museum

The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is the world's largest museum of decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 4.5 million Object ....
in 1969, marked one of the first uses of internally-lit architectural glass, and coincidentally was the first Moderne interior preserved in a museum.

Although Streamline Moderne houses are less common than streamline commercial buildings, residences do exist. The Lydecker House

Lydecker House

The Lydecker Hilltop House is an art deco house and film location in Los Angeles, California designed by the Lydecker brothers, Howard and Theodore Lydecker....
in Los Angeles, built by Howard Lydecker, is an example of Streamline Moderne design in residential architecture.

Notable examples

1926 - Long Beach Airport Main Terminal, Long Beach, California
Long Beach, California

Long Beach is a large city located in southern California, USA, on the Pacific Ocean coast. It is situated in Los Angeles County, about south of downtown Los Angeles....
1928 - Lockheed Vega
Lockheed Vega

The Vega was a six-passenger monoplane built by the Lockheed Corporation company starting in 1927. It became famous for its use by a number of record breaking pilots who were attracted to the rugged and very long-ranged design....
, designed by John Northrop, a four-passenger single engine aircraft, made famous by the use of Amelia Earhart.
1930 - Strand Palace Hotel
Strand Palace Hotel

The Strand Palace Hotel is a large hotel on the north side of the Strand, London, London, England. It was erected after Exeter Hall was demolished in 1907....
, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
. Foyer designed by Oliver P. Bernard
1931 - The Eaton's Seventh Floor
The Carlu (Toronto)

The Carlu is a historic event space in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Known for many years as the "Eaton's Seventh Floor", the Carlu is one of Toronto's best examples of Streamline Moderne architecture....
(including the Eaton Auditorium and the Round Room restaurant) in Toronto
Toronto

Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
, Canada
Canada

Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....
, designed by Jacques Carlu
Jacques Carlu

Jacques Carlu was a France architect and designer, working mostly in Art Deco style, active in France, Canada, and in the United States.Through the 1910s Carlu studied on site with British city planner Thomas Hayton Mawson, Pittsburgh architects Henry Hornbostel, and in the Paris studios of Victor Laloux....
, located in the former Eaton's
Eaton's

Eaton's was once Canada's largest department store retailer. Founded in 1869 in Toronto by Timothy Eaton, an Irish people immigrant, Eaton's first advertisement read "We propose to sell our goods for CASH ONLY – In selling goods, to have only one price." In an era where haggling for goods was commonplace, this was a revolutionary busin...
department store.
1931 - Napier, New Zealand
Napier, New Zealand

Napier is a seaport List of cities in New Zealand in Hawke's Bay , New Zealand. It has a population of Less than twenty kilometres separate the centres of Hastings City and Napier, and as such the two are often called "The Twin Cities" or "The Bay Cities"....
, rebuilt in Art Deco and Streamline Moderne styles after a major earthquake.
1933 - Burnham Beeches
Burnham Beeches (Australia)

Burnham Beeches was a house built by Alfred Nicholas in the late 1920s and 30s in the Dandenong Ranges, 40 kilometres from Melbourne, on Sherbrooke Road, Sherbrooke, Victoria, Victoria , Australia....
in Sherbrooke, Victoria
Sherbrooke, Victoria

Sherbrooke is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria , Australia, 35 km east from Melbourne's Melbourne city centre. Its Local Government Areas of Victoria is the Shire of Yarra Ranges....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
. Harry Norris
Harry Norris

Harry Norris was an Australian architect working in Melbourne during the mid 1920s and 1930s.He designed some of the city's most loved buildings, most in the Melbourne CBD and many in moderne and art deco styles featuring the use of Glazed architectural terra-cotta, inspired by his tour to California in the early 1920s....
architect.
1933- The Lawson "Zephyr" clock designed by Kem Weber
Kem Weber

Kem Weber was a furniture and industrial designer, an architect, art director, and a teacher. He was born Karl Emanuel Martin in Berlin, Germany....
for Lawson Time of Alhambra, CA.
1933 - Merle Norman Building, Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a city in western Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. Situated on Santa Monica Bay of the Pacific Ocean, it is completely surrounded by the City of Los Angeles ? Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood, Los Angeles, California on the north, West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California on the northeast...
See also History of Santa Monica, California
History of Santa Monica, California

The History of Santa Monica, California, USA, covers the significant events and movements in Santa Monica, California's past. While intertwined with the history of its larger neighbor, Los Angeles, California, Santa Monica has led an independent existence in modern times....
1933 - Midland Hotel
Midland Hotel (Morecambe)

File:Midland Hotel, Morecambe, in evening sunlight.jpgThe Midland Hotel is a famous Art Deco building in Morecambe, in Lancashire, England. It was built by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway , in 1933, to the designs of architect Oliver Hill , with sculpture by Eric Gill....
, Morecambe
Morecambe

Morecambe is a seaside resort within the City of Lancaster district of Lancashire, England. As of 2003 it has a resident population of about 45,000....
, England
England

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.
1933-1940 - The interior of Chicago
Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
's Museum of Science and Industry
Museum of Science and Industry (Chicago)

The Museum of Science and Industry is located in Chicago, Illinois in Jackson Park , in the Hyde Park, Chicago neighborhood adjacent to Lake Michigan....
, designed by Alfred Shaw
1934 - Chrysler Airflow
Chrysler Airflow

The Chrysler Airflow is an automobile produced by the Chrysler Corporation from 1934 to 1937. The Airflow was the first full-size American production car to use streamliner as a basis for building a sleeker automobile, one less susceptible to drag ....
, the first mass-market streamline
Streamline

Streamline may refer to:*Streamlines, streaklines, and pathlines, in fluid flows. See also: Drag **Streamliner, any vehicle shaped to be less resistant to air...
automotive design
1935 - Ford Building, San Diego, California
Ford Building, San Diego, California

The Ford Building, a Streamline Moderne structure in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, serves as the home of the San Diego Air & Space Museum....
, Balboa Park.
1935 - The De La Warr Pavilion
The De La Warr Pavilion

The De La Warr Pavilion is an International style building constructed in 1935, considered by some to be in an Art Deco.new seafront building was the result of an architectural competition initiated by the Herbrand Sackville, 9th Earl De La Warr, after whom the building was named....
, Bexhill-on-Sea
Bexhill-on-Sea

Bexhill-on-Sea is a town and seaside resort in the Counties of England of East Sussex, in the south of England, within the Rother. It has a population of approximately 40,000....
, England
England

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1935 - Pan Pacific Auditorium
Pan-Pacific Auditorium

The Pan-Pacific Auditorium was a landmark structure in the Fairfax District, Los Angeles, California of Los Angeles, California which once stood at 7600 West Beverly Boulevard near the site of Gilmore Field, an early Los Angeles baseball venue predating Dodger Stadium....
, Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
1935 - Edificio Internacional de Capitalización
Edificio Internacional de Capitalización

Edificio Internacional de Capitalizaci?n was a 1935 Streamline Moderne skyscraper located in downtown Mexico City.At the time of its construction, it was the second tallest skyscraper in Latin America and the tallest in Mexico, with 26 stories and 107 meters tall....
, Mexico City
Mexico City

Mexico City is the capital city of Mexico. It is the most important economic, industrial, and cultural center in the country; the most populous city with over 8,836,045 inhabitants in 2008....
, Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
1935 - The Hindenburg
LZ 129 Hindenburg

LZ 129 Hindenburg was a large Germany commercial passenger-carrying rigid airship, the lead ship of the Hindenburg class airship, the largest flying machines of any kind ever built....
, zeppelin
Zeppelin

For the English rock group, please see Led Zeppelin. For other meanings please see Zeppelin .A Zeppelin is a type of rigid airship pioneered by the German Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin in the early 20th century, based on designs he had outlined in 1874, designs he had detailed in 1893, and that were reviewed by committee in 1894, which h...
passenger accommodations
1935 - The interior of Lansdowne House
Lansdowne House

Lansdowne House is a building to the south west of Berkeley Square in central London. It was designed by Robert Adam as a private house and for most of its time as a residence it belonged to the Petty family, Marquesses of Lansdowne....
on Berkeley Square
Berkeley Square

Berkeley Square is a town square in the West End of London of London in the City of Westminster, originally laid out in the mid 18th century by architect William Kent....
in Mayfair, London
London

London is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom, and the most populous municipality in the European Union. An important settlement for two millennia, History of London goes back to its founding by the Roman Empire....
is redesigned and redecorated in the Art Moderne style and opens as the Lansdowne Club.
1936 - Minneapolis Armory
Minneapolis Armory

The Minneapolis Armory is located in downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota. The Armory was built for the Minnesota National Guard in 1935-36 and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985....
, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Minneapolis, Minnesota

Minneapolis is the largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota and is the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota. The city lies on both banks of the Mississippi River, just north of the river's confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Saint Paul, Minnesota, the state's Capital ....
1937 - Belgium Pavilion, at the Exposition Internationale, Paris
1937 - TAV Studios (Brenemen's Restaurant), Hollywood, California
1937 - Minerva (or Metro) Theatre and the Minerva Building, Potts Point, New South Wales
Potts Point, New South Wales

Potts Point is a small, densely-populated suburb of inner-city Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Potts Point is located 3 kilometres east of the Sydney central business district and is part of the Local Government Areas in Australia of the City of Sydney....
, Australia
Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the southern hemisphere comprising the Australia of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous list of islands of Australia in the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans....
1937 - Bather's Building at San Francisco's Aquatic Park
1937 - Barnum Hall (High School auditorium), Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a city in western Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. Situated on Santa Monica Bay of the Pacific Ocean, it is completely surrounded by the City of Los Angeles ? Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood, Los Angeles, California on the north, West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California on the northeast...
1937 - Wan Chai Market
Wan Chai Market

The Wan Chai Market was constructed in 1937.It is located at 264 Queen's Road East and Stone Nullah Lane in Wan Chai,Hong Kong Island. It is a Grade III Historic Building....
, Wan Chai
Wan Chai

Wan Chai is a metropolitan area situated at the western part of the Wan Chai District on the northern shore of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. Its other boundaries are Canal Road, Hong Kong to the east, Arsenal Street to the west and Bowen Road to the south....
,Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
1937 - River Oaks Shopping Center, Houston, Texas
Houston, Texas

Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States of America and the largest city within the state of Texas. As of the 2007 U.S. Census estimate, the city has a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles ....
1938 - Mark Keppel High School
Mark Keppel High School

Mark Keppel High School is a four-year California Distinguished School located in the city of Alhambra, California in the Alhambra Unified School District....
, Alhambra, California
Alhambra, California

Alhambra is a city located in the western San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County, California which is approximately eight miles from the Downtown Los Angeles civic center....
1938 - Normandie building, Mar del Plata, Argentina
1939 - Marine Air Terminal
Marine Air Terminal

File:Marine Air Terminal, LaGuardia, facade.jpgFile:Marine Air Terminal, LaGuardia, corner.jpgThe Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia Airport in New York, New York remains the only active airport terminal dating from the first generation of passenger travel in the United States--the "Golden age of the flying boat." Originally built to handle se...
, La Guardia Airport, New York
1939 - New York World's Fair
1939 New York World's Fair

1939 World's Fair redirects here. The term can also refer to the Golden Gate International Exposition, which was held in San Francisco/Oakland at the same time as the New York fair....
1939 - Cardozo Hotel, Ocean Drive
Ocean Drive

The following streets are called Ocean Drive:*Ocean Drive , a road along the Atlantic Ocean from Atlantic City to Cape May in New Jersey, USA*Ocean Drive in South Beach, Miami...
, South Beach
South Beach

File:MiamiSouthBeachPanoramaEdit.jpgSouth Beach is the section of Miami Beach, Florida, Florida that encompasses the southernmost 23 blocks of an island separating the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay....
, Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach, Florida

Miami Beach is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. The city was incorporated on 26 March, 1915.Miami Beach has been one of America's pre-eminent beach resorts for almost a century....
1940 - Gabel Kuro jukebox designed by Brooks Stevens
Brooks Stevens

Clifford Brooks Stevens was an American industrial designer of home furnishings and appliances, automobile and motor cycles, as well as a graphic designer and stylist....
1940 - Greyhound Bus Station, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan

Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County, Michigan. It is the state's seventh largest city with a population of 114,024 as of the 2000 United States Census, of which 36,892 are university or college students....
1940 - Jai Alai Building, Taft Avenue Manila
Manila

The 'City of Manila' , or simply 'Manila', is the Capital of the Philippines and one of the 17 cities and municipalities that make up Metro Manila....
, Philippines
Philippines

The Philippines, officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
1940 - Las Vegas Union Pacific Station, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
, Nevada
Nevada

Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States of the United States of America. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas, Nevada....
1941 - Avalon Hotel, Ocean Drive
Ocean Drive

The following streets are called Ocean Drive:*Ocean Drive , a road along the Atlantic Ocean from Atlantic City to Cape May in New Jersey, USA*Ocean Drive in South Beach, Miami...
, South Beach
South Beach

File:MiamiSouthBeachPanoramaEdit.jpgSouth Beach is the section of Miami Beach, Florida, Florida that encompasses the southernmost 23 blocks of an island separating the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay....
, Miami Beach, Florida
Miami Beach, Florida

Miami Beach is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, Florida, United States. The city was incorporated on 26 March, 1915.Miami Beach has been one of America's pre-eminent beach resorts for almost a century....
1942 - Mercantile National Bank Building
Mercantile National Bank Building

The Mercantile National Bank Building was the former home of the Mercantile National Bank, later MCorp Bank, located at 1700 Main Street, Dallas St....
, Dallas
Dallas, Texas

Dallas is the third largest city in the state of Texas and the List of United States cities by population in the United States.The city, with a population of over 1.3 million, is the main economic center of the 12-county Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex which contains 6.1 million people, and is the fourth-largest United States metropolitan area...
1944 - Huntridge Theater
Huntridge Theater

Huntridge Theater sometimes known as the Huntridge Performing Arts Theater is a Streamline Moderne building located in Las Vegas, Nevada, Nevada that is listed on the United States National Register of Historic Places....
, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada

Las Vegas is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nevada, the seat of Clark County, Nevada, and an internationally renowned major resort city for gambling, shopping, and entertainment....
, Nevada
Nevada

Nevada is a U.S. state located in the Western United States of the United States of America. The capital is Carson City and the largest city is Las Vegas, Nevada....
1946 - Gerry Building
Gerry Building

Gerry Building is a high-rise building in the Fashion District, Los Angeles, California of Los Angeles. Built in 1947, the Streamline Modern style building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2003....
, Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles is the largest city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Often abbreviated as L.A. and nicknamed The City of Angels, Los Angeles is rated as a beta global city, has an estimated population of 3.8 million and spans over in Southern California....
1947 - Sears Building, Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a city in western Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. Situated on Santa Monica Bay of the Pacific Ocean, it is completely surrounded by the City of Los Angeles ? Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood, Los Angeles, California on the north, West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California on the northeast...
1948 - Greyhound Bus Station, Cleveland, Ohio
Cleveland, Ohio

Cleveland is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, the most populous county in the state. The municipality is located in northeastern Ohio on the southern shore of Lake Erie, approximately 60 miles west of the Pennsylvania border....
1949 - Sault Memorial Gardens
Sault Memorial Gardens

The Sault Memorial Gardens was the focal point of ice hockey in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, for 57 years from 1949 to 2006. It was located in the heart of the downtown district at 169 Queen Street....
, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario

Sault Ste. Marie is a city on the St. Marys River in Ontario, Canada. It is the third largest city in Northern Ontario, after Greater Sudbury and Thunder Bay, with a population of 74,948....

Influences

Industrial and consumer product design

The style was applied to appliances such as electric clocks, sewing machines, small radio receivers and vacuum cleaners. These also employed developments in materials science

Materials science

Materials science or materials engineering is an interdisciplinary field involving the properties of matter and its applications to various areas of science and engineering....
including aluminum and bakelite

Bakelite

Bakelite is a material based on the thermosetting plastic phenol formaldehyde resin polyoxybenzylmethylenglycolanhydride, developed in 1907?1909 by Demographics of Belgium Dr....
.

Motion Pictures

The buildings in Frank Capra
Frank Capra

'Frank Russell Capra' was an Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It's a Wonderful Life and Mr....
's 1937 movie Lost Horizon, designed by Stephen Goosson
Stephen Goosson

Stephen Goosson was an Academy Award-winning United States film set designer.Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Goosson was an architecture in Detroit before starting his film career as art director for producer Lewis J....
The design of the "Emerald City" in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz

Streamline Moderne

Notable examples

Influences

Industrial and consumer product design

Motion Pictures

See also

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