#Art Deco Style
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achronalart · 11 months ago
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FWIW, "mauve" was one of the coal-tar dyes developed in the mid-19th century that made eye-wateringly bright clothing fashionable for a few decades.
It was an eye-popping magenta purple
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HOWEVER, like most aniline dyes, it faded badly, to a washed-out blue-grey ...
...which was the color ignorant youngsters in the 1920s associated with “mauve”.
(This dress is labeled "mauve" as it is the color the above becomes after fading).
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They colored their vision of the past with washed-out pastels that were NOTHING like the eye-popping electric shades the mid-Victorians loved. This 1926 fashion history book by Paul di Giafferi paints a hugely distorted, I would say dishonest picture of the past.
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Ever since then this faded bluish lavender and not the original electric eye-watering hot pink-purple is the color associated with the word “mauve”.
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trb752 · 6 months ago
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WJR broadcast building, Riverview, Michigan, USA
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mote-historie · 7 months ago
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George Barbier, La Belle Personne, Worth evening dress, detail, fashion plate from Gazette du Bon Ton, 1925.
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rockyp77mk3 · 2 months ago
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Modern interpretation of Art Deco style. The GeeBee racers are flying a bit too close to the Chrysler Building but still a nice effect.
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onefootin1941 · 5 months ago
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Art Deco Black Jaguar
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artdecoandmodernist · 1 year ago
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1920 Art Deco Sunburst design, Le Bonheur du Jour, by George Barbier. 
A sunburst is a design or figure commonly used in architectural ornaments and design patterns and possibly pattern books. It consists of rays or "beams" radiating out from a central disk in the manner of sunbeams. Sometimes part of a sunburst, a semicircular or semi-elliptical shape, is used. Traditional sunburst motifs usually show the rays narrowing as they get further from the centre; from the later 19th century they often get wider, as in the Japanese Rising Sun Flag, which is more appropriate in optical terms. (x) 
For sale: Edition Originale
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boylerpf · 10 months ago
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Vintage Art Deco Style Diamond and Aquamarine Ring
Source - Boylerpf
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cochino-devin · 1 year ago
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todayontumblr · 1 year ago
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Friday, June 23.
Art Deco.
Everything must be Deco, dahling.
Fashion comes and goes, but style is forever, someone once said. Somewhen. In fact, this quote is attributed to a few different sources: Yves Saint Laurent, and Coco Chanel, among others. If no one is claiming attribution, we would happily take the credit in the spirit of finders-keepers. 
"Fashion comes and goes, but style is forever."
—Tumblr Staff. 
Got a certain ring, don't you think? In any case, we are taking this Friday, June 23 to celebrate one of those aforementioned eternal visual styles, #art deco, daaahling. We couldn't help but notice you fine folk of the dashboard enjoying this same style—what the French so Frenchly call, Arts Décoratifs, following the 1925 Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes (International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) held in (where else?) Paris. Daaaaaaaaaaaahling! 
We will bid you a Merry Friday and hope to catch you at tonight's Great Gatsby-style event. You know, the extravagant one at the Art Deco-y place in, uh... Noo Yawk. Everyone is going to be there.
Daaaaaaaaahlings x 
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jadeseadragon · 1 year ago
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Mike Willcox
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bouncinghedgehoglikesart · 8 months ago
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Fred F French bldg, New York
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nkrisztina100 · 2 months ago
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Made with AI
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trb752 · 1 year ago
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The Guardian Building in Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, USA
Originally called the Union Trust Building. It has 40 floors and serves as county headquarters.
Opened in March 1929.
Architect: Wirt C. Rowland
Photographs by Leandro Martins Photography. Used with permission.
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mote-historie · 10 months ago
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George Barbier, La Villa d'Este, Tivoli, Italy, Falbalas et Fanfreluches, 1922.
The Villa d'Este is a 16th-century villa in Tivoli, near Rome, famous for its terraced hillside Italian Renaissance garden and especially for its profusion of fountains. It is now an Italian state museum, and is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (x)
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the-cricket-chirps · 1 year ago
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Tamara de Lempicka
Portrait of Dr. Boucard
1929
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onefootin1941 · 3 months ago
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1936 Bentley 4.2 Litre Derby 'Embiricos' Roadster in deco-styled poster.
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