ART DECO

Art Deco

From 1925 until the 1940s, Art Deco was a popular international art design movement affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts including painting, the graphic arts, fashion and film. At the time, this style was seen as elegant, glamorous, functional, and modern. The movement was a mixture of many different styles and movement of the early 20th century,including Neoclassical, Constructivism, Cubism, Modernism and Futurism. The movement was a mixture of many different styles and movements of the early 20th century, including Neoclassical, Constructivism, Cubism, Modernism, Art Nouveau and Futurism.

It is characterized by the use of angular, symmetrical geometric forms. One of the classic Art Deco themes is that of 1930s-era skyscrapers such as New York's Chrysler Building and Empire State Building.

Another of many many Art Deco buildings is the City Hall of Buffalo. When approaching City Hall from Niagara Street, one is impressed with an architectural style which is modern without being modernistic and which depicts the age in which it was built. Also, it generally balanced its modernism with a taste of the symbolism normally associated with classical architecture.
The 32 story Art Deco building was completed in 1931 by Dietel, Wade & Jones.