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peter scott
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 Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:12 pm Post subject: What is the Ultimate Art Deco Motoring Image? |
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Don has just suggested in the Time Machine thread that we launch an art deco thread so how about the above?
I'll kick off with this..
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Rick
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Geoffp
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The Lalique mascots must be somehere there. I think the most typically art deco one is 'the spirit of the wind':
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Job-Rated
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How about this? It's one of the cars up for auction by Barrett-Jackson in Scottsdale, Arizona. It's a 2007 Blastolene, based on the big V16s & V32s of the time...
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pigtin
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Not motoring I'm afraid but a creditable effort by a huge organization to retain the essence of an Art Deco building. The original pub is on the front and they have built the hotel at the back while the "bridge of an ocean liner" image is retained in the original part it is now red brick and rather spoils the effect.
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pigtin
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Penman
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Hi
Former swimming pool, now a pub, at New Brighton.
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pigtin
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| That's nice. |
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Penman
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peter scott
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Yes, It's really nice to see original '30s buildings being sympathetically restored
and new buildings incorporating some of the definitive '30s features of glass bricks, drum towers and oversailing canopies, etc.
I love Crittall windows but I do accept that the originals are a bit problematic
70 or 80 years on. UPVC and aluminium replacements are a poor substitute
but Crittall does produce repros that do meet modern standards. See below.
A few years back a '30s roadhouse here in Edinburgh was revamped quite well. The centre of the facade was based on a car radiator.
Peter
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Rick
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We spotted a good number of art deco garages in Portugal last year, many were run down but a few had been restored and looked fantastic.
This one was on the main high street in Aveiro, a former Citroen garage and now used as a general car maintenance workshop I think
Next door was this Europcar office
In Porto last November, we found a tram museum, housed within the old tram operator's building on the river front. It too had been restored, with these cracking old lamps still outside above the fence
On one of the main shopping streets sits this old garage, now selling BMW Minis:
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Uncle Joe
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| Going back to pigtins photo, isnt that the old Prospect Inn with a few new additions? |
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pigtin
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Yes, you're right UJ: it closed a few years ago and was starting to look very sad. Do you remember just a few miles down the road towards Herne Bay. The Chez Laurie? A really classical Art Deco pub.
Some lowlife bought it and (in spite of the preservation order) demolished it... Said the bulldozer driver had misunderstood his instructions.
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Uncle Joe
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| Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:42 am Post subject: |
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The name does ring a bell, but I dont really remember it.
The only reason that I remember the Prospect is because some of my oldest friends live just a few hundred yards from it, and I remember looking at it last time I visited them.
I believe that it is re-opening this coming weekend as a Holiday Inn. Do you know if that is correct? |
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pigtin
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Yes it is a Holiday Inn: no idea when it's opening, though it seems to be almost finished.
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