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Streamline Moderne

Top: San Francisco Maritime Museum (1937) Middle: New York Primal Hudson locomotive (1939): Bottom: Blytheville Greyhound Bus Station, Arkansas (1937)
Years agile	1930s–1940s
Country	International

Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco compages and blueprint that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic pattern, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and sometimes nautical elements. In industrial design, it was used in railroad locomotives, telephones, toasters, buses, appliances, and other devices to give the impression of sleekness and modernity.^[1]

In France, it was called the Style paquebot, or "ocean liner manner", and was influenced past the pattern of the luxury ocean liner SS Normandie, launched in 1932.

Influences and origins [edit]

Every bit the Great Depression of the 1930s progressed, Americans saw a new attribute of Art Deco, i.e., streamlining, a concept beginning conceived by industrial designers who stripped Art Deco design of its ornament in favor of the aerodynamic pure-line concept of motion and speed developed from scientific thinking. The cylindrical forms and long horizontal windowing in architecture may also take been influenced past constructivism, and past the New Objectivity artists, a movement connected to the German Werkbund. Examples of this style include the 1923 Mossehaus, the reconstruction of the corner of a Berlin office building in 1923 by Erich Mendelsohn and Richard Neutra. The Streamline Moderne was sometimes a reflection of ascetic economic times; sharp angles were replaced with uncomplicated, aerodynamic curves, and decoration was replaced with smooth concrete and glass.

The style was the outset to contain electric light into architectural structure. In the first-class dining room of the SS Normandie, fitted out 1933–35, twelve tall pillars of Lalique glass, and 38 columns lit from within illuminated the room. The Strand Palace Hotel entrance hall (1930), preserved from demolition by the Victoria and Albert Museum during 1969, was one of the outset uses of internally lit architectural glass, and coincidentally was the first Moderne interior preserved in a museum.

Architecture [edit]

Streamline Moderne appeared most oft in buildings related to transportation and move, such as autobus and train stations, drome terminals, roadside cafes, and port buildings. It had characteristics mutual with modern architecture, including a horizontal orientation, rounded corners, the use of glass brick walls or porthole windows, flat roofs, chrome-plated hardware, and horizontal grooves or lines in the walls. They were frequently white or in subdued pastel colors.

An example of this style is the Aquatic Park Bathhouse in the Aquatic Park Historic Commune, in San Francisco. Congenital beginning in 1936 by the Works Progress Assistants, information technology features the distinctive horizontal lines, classic rounded corners railing and windows of the style, resembling the elements of ship. The interior preserves much of the original decoration and detail, including murals by creative person and colour theoretician Hilaire Hiler. The architects were William Mooser Jr. and William Mooser III. It is now the administrative eye of Aquatic Park Historic District.

The Normandie Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, which opened during 1942, is built in the stylized shape of the ocean liner SS Normandie, and displays the send's original sign. The Sterling Streamliner Diners in New England were diners designed similar streamlined trains.

Although Streamline Moderne houses are less common than streamline commercial buildings, residences practice be. The Lydecker House in Los Angeles, built past Howard Lydecker, is an example of Streamline Moderne blueprint in residential compages. In tract development, elements of the mode were sometimes used as a variation in postwar row housing in San Francisco's Sunset District.

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  Eastward Finchley Tube station, London (1937)

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  Greyhound Coach Station, Columbia, South Carolina (1936–1939)

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  Night image, NBC Hollywood Studios (aka Radio City Hollywood) at Sunset and Vine (1938)

"Paquebot" way [edit]

In France, the style was called Paquebot, meaning ocean liner. The French version was inspired by the launch of the ocean liner Normandie in 1935, which featured an Fine art Deco dining room with columns of Lalique crystal. Buildings using variants of the style appeared in Kingdom of belgium and in Paris, notably in a building at 3 boulevard Victor in the 15th arrondissement, by the architect Pierre Patout. He was i of the founders of the Fine art Deco style. He designed the archway to the Pavilion of a Collector at the 1925 Exposition of Decorative Arts, the birthplace of the style. He was also the designer of the interiors of three ocean liners, the Ile-de-France (1926), the L'Atlantique (1930), and the Normandie (1935).^[2] Patout'southward building on Artery Victor lacked the curving lines of the American version of the style, but it had a narrow "bow" at 1 stop, where the site was narrow, long balconies similar the decks of a ship, and a row of projections similar smokestacks on the roof. Another 1935 Paris apartment building at ane Avenue Paul-Daumier in the 16th arrondissement had a series of terraces modelled after the decks of an ocean liner.^[3]

The Flagey Edifice was congenital on the Place Flagey in Ixelles (Brussels), Belgium, in 1938, in the paquebot fashion,^[4] and has been nicknamed "Packet Boat"^[five] or "paquebot".^[6] It was designed by Joseph Diongre [fr], and selected equally the winning design in an architectural competition^[7] to create a edifice to business firm the old headquarters of the Belgian National Constitute of Radio Broadcasting (INR/NIR).^[8] The edifice was extensively renovated, and in 2002, it reopened as a cultural eye known every bit Le Flagey.^{[vii] [9]}

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  Principal dining room of the ocean liner S.S. Normandie past Pierre Patout (1935)

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  Paquebot building at three boulevard Victor, 15th arrondissement, Paris by Patout (1935)

Automobiles [edit]

The defining event for streamline moderne blueprint in the U.s. was the 1933–34 Chicago World's Fair, which introduced the style to the general public. The new automobiles adjusted the smooth lines of ocean liners and airships, giving the impression of efficiency, dynamism, and speed. The grills and windshields tilted backwards, cars saturday lower and wider, and they featured polish curves and horizontal speed lines. Examples include the 1934 Chrysler Airflow and the 1934 Studebaker State Cruiser. The cars likewise featured new materials, including bakelite plastic, formica, Vitrolight opaque drinking glass, stainless steel, and enamel, which gave the appearance of newness and sleekness.^[ten]

In 1939 and 1941 respectively, both Chrysler and GM came out with pick-up and truck lines, that had both distinct and similar looking designs that submitted to the Art Deco and streamline styling en faddy in the mean solar day, under various brand names.

Other later examples include the 1950 Nash Administrator "Airflyte" sedan with its distinctive low fender lines, also as Hudson's postwar cars, such as the Commodore,^[11] that "were distinctive streamliners—ponderous, massive automobiles with a mode all their own".^[12]

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  The 1931 WIKOV Supersport, Prostějov Moravia was the first produced truly aerodynamically designed machine.

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  The 1934 Tatra 77 was the commencement serial-produced truly aerodynamically designed machine.

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  Talbot Teardrop SS 150 (1938)

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  1939 Schlörwagen - Subsequent current of air tunnel tests yielded a elevate coefficient of 0.113

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  1955 Tatra603 The last prototype in Kopřivnice Moravia

Planes, boats and trains [edit]

Streamlining became a widespread design practice for shipping, railroad locomotives, and ships.

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Industrial design [edit]

Streamline manner tin can be contrasted with functionalism, which was a leading design manner in Europe at the aforementioned fourth dimension. One reason for the simple designs in functionalism was to lower the production costs of the items, making them affordable to the large European working class.^[13] Streamlining and functionalism represent 2 different schools in modern industrial design.

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  Philips Art Deco radio set (1931)

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Other notable examples [edit]

Doctor'southward Building, Kyiv, Ukraine, 1928

Serralves House, Porto, Portugal, 1931-1944

Gdynia Maritime Academy, Poland, 1937

J. Due west. Knapp Visitor Building (1937), Lansing, Michigan

Hamilton Hydro-Electrical System Building (1935), Hamilton, Ontario

• 1923 Mossehaus, Berlin. Reconstruction by Erich Mendelsohn and Richard Neutra
• 1926: Long Beach Airport Master Terminal, Long Embankment, California
• 1928: Lockheed Vega, designed by John Knudsen Northrop, a six-passenger, single-engine shipping used by Amelia Earhart
• 1928: Doctor's Edifice in Kyiv, Ukraine
• 1928–1930: Canada Permanent Trust Building in Toronto
• 1930: Strand Palace Hotel, London; entrance hall designed by Oliver Percy Bernard
• 1930–1934: Broadway Mansions, Shanghai, designed by B. Flazer of Palmer and Turner
• 1931: The Eaton'south Seventh Floor in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, designed by Jacques Carlu, in the former Eaton'southward department store
• 1931: Napier, New Zealand, rebuilt in Art Deco and Streamline Moderne styles after a major convulsion
• 1931–1932: Plärrer Automat, Nuremberg, Bavaria, Federal republic of germany by later Nazi-collaborate architect Walter Brugmann
• 1931–1933: Hamilton Get Eye, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada past Alfred T. Fellheimer
• 1931–1944: Serralves House, Porto, Portugal, designed by José Marques da Silva
• 1932: Edifício Columbus, São Paulo, Brazil (demolished 1971)
• 1932: Arnos Grove Tube Station, London, England, designed by Charles Holden
• 1933: Casa della Gioventù del Littorio, Rome, designed by Luigi Moretti
• 1933: Ty Kodak building in Quimper, France, designed past Olier Mordrel
• 1933: Southgate tube station, London
• 1933: Burnham Beeches in Sherbrooke, Victoria, Australia. Harry Norris architect
• 1933: Merle Norman Edifice, Santa Monica, California See too History of Santa Monica, California
• 1933: Midland Hotel, Morecambe, England
• 1933: Edificio Lapido, Montevideo, Uruguay
• 1933–1940: Interior of Chicago's Museum of Science and Manufacture, designed past Alfred Shaw
• 1934: Pioneer Zephyr, the first of Edward Thousand. Budd's streamlined stainless-steel locomotives
• 1934: Tatra 77, the first mass-market streamline automotive design
• 1934: Chrysler Airflow, the 2d mass-marketplace streamline automotive design
• 1934: Hotel Shangri-La in Santa Monica, California
• 1934: Edifício Nicolau Schiesser, São Paulo, Brazil (demolished 2014)
• 1935: Ford Edifice in Balboa Park, San Diego, California
• 1935: The De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Body of water, England
• 1935: Pan-Pacific Auditorium, Los Angeles
• 1935: Edificio Internacional de Capitalización, United mexican states City, Mexico
• 1935: The Hindenburg, Zeppelin passenger accommodations
• 1935: The interior of Lansdowne House on Berkeley Square in Mayfair, London
• 1935: The Hamilton Hydro-Electric Organization Building, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
• 1935: MV Kalakala, the earth'southward first streamlined ferry
• 1935: Technologist'due south Building in Kyiv, Ukraine
• 1935–1938: Former Belgian National Institute of Radio Dissemination (known every bit the Maison de la Radio) on Eugène Flagey Square in Ixelles (Brussels), past Joseph Diongre
• 1935–1956: Loftier Tower Court, Hollywood Heights, Los Angeles^[14]
• 1936: Lasipalatsi, in Helsinki, Republic of finland, functionalist office building and at present a cultural and media center
• 1936: Florin Court, on Charterhouse Foursquare in London, built past Guy Morgan and Partners
• 1936: Campana Manufacturing plant, historic factory in Batavia, Illinois
• 1936: Edifício Guarani, São Paulo, Brazil
• 1936: Nordic Theater, Marquette, Michigan
• 1937: Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London
• 1937: Earl's Courtroom tube station, London, facing the Earls Court Exhibition frontage
• 1937: Blytheville Greyhound Bus Station in Blytheville, Arkansas
• 1937: Regent Court, residential apartments on Bradfield Road, Hillsborough, Sheffield
• 1937: Malloch Building, residential apartments at 1360 Montgomery Street in San Francisco
• 1937: B B Chemical Visitor, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, built past Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch & Abbott
• 1937: Kingdom of belgium Pavilion, at the Exposition Internationale, Paris
• 1937: TAV Studios (Brenemen'due south Restaurant), Hollywood
• 1937: Dudley Zoo, Dudley, UK
• 1937: Hecht Company Warehouse in Washington, D.C.
• 1937: Minerva (or Metro) Theatre and the Minerva Building, Potts Indicate, New Southward Wales, [ustralia
• 1937: Bather's Building in the Aquatic Park Celebrated Commune, at present the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park Maritime Museum
• 1937: Barnum Hall (High School auditorium), Santa Monica, California
• 1937: J.W. Knapp Visitor Edifice (section store) Lansing, Michigan
• 1937: Wan Chai Market place, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
• 1937: River Oaks Shopping Middle, Houston
• 1937: Toronto Stock Commutation Building, mix of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne
• 1937: Pittsburgh Plate Glass Enamel Plant, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, by Alexander C. Eschweiler
• 1937: Old Greyhound Bus Station (Jackson, Mississippi)
• 1937: Gramercy Theatre, New York Metropolis
• 1937: Gdynia Maritime Academy in Poland, by Bohdan Damięcki
• 1938: Esslinger Building in San Juan Capistrano, California
• 1938: Mark Keppel High School, Alhambra, California
• 1938: Greyhound Bus Terminal (Evansville, Indiana)
• 1938: 20th Century Limited, New York City
• 1938: Jones Canis familiaris & Cat Hospital, West Hollywood, California, past Wurdeman & Beckett (remodel of 1928 original construction)^[15]
• 1938: Greyhound Charabanc Depot (Columbia, S Carolina)
• 1938: Marine Courtroom, St Leonards, E Sussex, England
• 1939: Bartlesville Loftier School, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
• 1939: First Church of Deliverance in Chicago, Illinois
• 1939: Marine Air Terminal, LaGuardia Airport, New York City
• 1939: Road Island Diner, Oakley, Utah
• 1939: Albion Hotel, Southward Beach, Miami Beach, Florida
• 1939: New York World'southward Fair
• 1939: Cardozo Hotel, Sea Bulldoze, S Embankment, Miami Beach, Florida
• 1939: Daily Express Building, Manchester, England
• 1939: East Finchley tube station, London, England
• 1939: Appleby Club, Manchester, England
• 1940: Gabel Kuro jukebox designed by Brooks Stevens
• 1940: Ann Arbor Jitney Depot, Michigan
• 1940: Jai Alai Building, Taft Avenue Manila, Philippines (demolished 2000)
• 1940: Hollywood Palladium, Los Angeles, California
• 1940: Las Vegas Matrimony Pacific Station, Las Vegas, Nevada
• 1940: Rivoli Cinemas, 200 Camberwell Road Hawthorn East, Melbourne, Commonwealth of australia
• 1940: Pacaembu Stadium, São Paulo, Brazil
• 1941: Avalon Hotel, Ocean Drive, South Beach, Miami Beach, Florida
• 1942: Normandie Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico
• 1942: Mercantile National Bank Building in Dallas, Texas
• 1942: Musick Memorial Radio Station in Auckland, New Zealand
• 1943: Edifício Trussardi in São Paulo, Brazil
• 1944: Huntridge Theater, Las Vegas, Nevada
• 1945: Muscats Motors, Gżira, Malta
• 1945: Ressano Garcia Railway Station, Mozambique
• 1946: Gerry Building, Los Angeles, California
• 1946: Canada Dry Bottling Plant, Silver Bound, Maryland
• 1946: Broadway Theatre, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
• 1949: Sault Memorial Gardens, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
• 1951: Federal Reserve Bank Building, Seattle, Washington
• 1954: Poitiers Theater designed by Edouard Lardillier
• 1955: Eight Forty 1 (sometime Prudential Life Insurance Building), Jacksonville, Florida, designed by KBJ Architects
• 1957: Edinburgh Place Ferry Pier (Star Ferry Pier, Central), Hong Kong (demolished 2006)
• 1957: Tsim Sha Tsui Ferry Pier, Hong Kong
• 1965: Hung Hom Ferry Pier, Hong Kong
• 1968: Wan Chai Pier, Hong Kong (demolished 2014)

In motion pictures [edit]

• Tanks, aircraft and buildings in William Cameron Menzies'southward 1936 movie Things to Come
• The buildings in Frank Capra's 1937 movie Lost Horizon, designed by Stephen Goosson
• The pattern of the "Emerald City" in the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz
• The main character's helmet and rocket pack in the 1991 movie The Rocketeer
• The Loftier Tower apartments, featured in the 1973 moving picture The Long Bye and 1991 film Dead Over again ^[14]
• The Malloch Apartment Edifice at 1360 Montgomery St, San Francisco that serves as apartment for Lauren Bacall's grapheme in Dark Passage

See too [edit]

• Century of Progress Chicago'due south second Globe's Fair (1933–34)
• Constructivist compages
• Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (1937) (1937 Paris Exposition)
• Googie architecture
• PWA Moderne – a Moderne style in the Usa completed between 1933 and 1944 as part of relief projects sponsored past the Public Works Administration (PWA) and the Works Progress Assistants (WPA)
• Raygun Gothic
• Streamliner

References [edit]

1. ^ "A true example of Streamline Moderne". Times of Republic of malta. 6 September 2012. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016.
2. ^ Oudin, Bernard. Dictionnaire des Architectes, Sechiers, Paris, (1994), (in French), page 372.
3. ^ Texier, Paris Panorama of Archicture, Parigramme, (2012). pg. 142.
4. ^ "Le Flagey - Découvrez Bruxelles en musique". Bruxelles ma Belle (in French). 16 Nov 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
5. ^ "New class for package boat". SVR-Architects. 14 July 2002. Retrieved ix May 2021.
6. ^ "Februari 2017: Flagey architectuurwandeling en pianoconcert". Antwerpencultuurstad (in Dutch). 17 February 2017. Retrieved nine May 2021.
7. ^ ^{a b} "The Flagey Building". Flagey . Retrieved 8 May 2021.
8. ^ "Flagey". jazz.brussels . Retrieved nine May 2021.
9. ^ "Flagey N.V." SVR-Architects. 17 October 2002. Retrieved 9 May 2021.
10. ^ McCourt, Marking, "When Art Deco is Really Streamline Moderne", Hemmings Daily, 29 May 2014
11. ^ "1948 Hudson Models – Tech Pages Commodity". Auto History Preservation Gild . Retrieved Feb 14, 2018.
12. ^ Reed, Robert C. (1975). The Streamline Era. San Marino, California: Gilt Due west Books. ISBN0-87095-053-iii.
13. ^ Nickelsen, Trine (xv June 2010). "Aluminium – en kulturhistorie" (in Norwegian). Apollon. Retrieved 17 Feb 2015.
14. ^ ^{a b} Bettsky, Aaron (15 July 1993). "A Hollywood Ending for Those Who Take This Elevator to the Tiptop". Los Angeles Times . Retrieved 17 Feb 2015.
15. ^ Bos, Sascha (16 July 2014). "Historic 1938 Building Could Complicate Massive WeHo Development". LA Weekly . Retrieved 17 February 2015.

Bibliography [edit]

• Texier, Simon (2012). Paris- Panorama de 50'compages. Parigramme. ISBN978-2-84096-667-8.
• Oudin, Bernard (1994). Dictionnaire des Architectes. Seghers. ISBNtwo-232-10398-6.

External links [edit]

• Streamline Moderne, Flickr
• Streamline Moderne, Decopix
• "Streamline Moderne & Nautical Moderne Architecture in Miami Beach", Miami Beach Magazine
• "San Francisco 1939 Modernistic 'Nuptials Cake'", HGTV.com

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