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danuvI thought I had my day planned out. Tomorrow the family was supposed to be coming over for our 'Easter Feast' as Rhiannon has named it. Instead we're going to my dad's. He decided that would be best given our lack of chairs here. No big deal but that pretty much eradicates the need for the heavy duty cleaning which was supposed to fill the bulk of my day.
So instead I consumed a pot of coffee (French press size) and sat down to consume more of the Baroness's life. One of the things that delights me most is to find connections between my various interests. There is an Art Nouveau building that I came across a year or two ago that always fascinated me but I didn't find much information on it in the book I was reading and didn't do a lot of digging around at the time. I knew that it had been built for two female photographers as their studio and was destroyed in WW2.
While reading the biography about the Baroness I discovered that prior to moving to New York she was married to the man who designed this building. Woo! A very clear link between one of my interests (Art Nouveau design) and another (dada)! It also contained more information about the women who had the studio built and why it was destroyed (intentionally by the Nazis). Now when I chose to go digging again I'll have a better launching pad. There is actually more connection between Art Nouveau and dada that I had imagined. It surprised me because I think of Art Nouveau and also Art Deco as being primarily decorative movements rather than anything particularly cerebral which actually has something to do with their connection. I won't babble about that here though. Not today anyway.
So instead I consumed a pot of coffee (French press size) and sat down to consume more of the Baroness's life. One of the things that delights me most is to find connections between my various interests. There is an Art Nouveau building that I came across a year or two ago that always fascinated me but I didn't find much information on it in the book I was reading and didn't do a lot of digging around at the time. I knew that it had been built for two female photographers as their studio and was destroyed in WW2.
While reading the biography about the Baroness I discovered that prior to moving to New York she was married to the man who designed this building. Woo! A very clear link between one of my interests (Art Nouveau design) and another (dada)! It also contained more information about the women who had the studio built and why it was destroyed (intentionally by the Nazis). Now when I chose to go digging again I'll have a better launching pad. There is actually more connection between Art Nouveau and dada that I had imagined. It surprised me because I think of Art Nouveau and also Art Deco as being primarily decorative movements rather than anything particularly cerebral which actually has something to do with their connection. I won't babble about that here though. Not today anyway.
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That building
Date: 2005-03-29 01:03 pm (UTC)what a groovy building! was it in NY or somewhere else? I love Art Nouveau and the English Arts & Crafts movement which is more functional,especially as an architectural style, AND I also love Art Deco, especially buildings. I try to photograph architectural details whenever I can. No idea what I'll do with them, but it's an urge I try not to resist.
Re: That building
Date: 2005-03-29 05:27 pm (UTC)"Establishment architects criticized the design's excessive ornamentation, arbitrary subjectivity, and lack of discipline. In fact, so transgressive and unsettling was the design that the Nazis would order its destruction at the owner's cost in 1937."
Some building.
Unfortunately there isn't a lot of Art Nouveau design in the United States. There is some but it was largely a European fad. There seems to be more Art Deco around particularly in certain regions (like Miami). I got a fantastic (and massive) book on Art Deco for Christmas and it contains an entire chapter on Art Deco in Australia. There are some fantastic buildings there.
Re: That building
Date: 2005-03-30 01:09 pm (UTC)I also got a book on Art Deco architecture for Christmas! Mine is divided into types of buildings - houses, cinemas, offices, factories, etc - so references to any country are scattered throughout. We have quite a few old deco apartment buildings in Sydney; people I like aspire to live in them, & they're usually fairly cheap to rent, because the sort of people I don't like think they are old-fashioned and decaying. My apartment building is a converted warehouse from 1913; but you can't really tell, except we have nice high ceilings.
The building across the road from me is gorgeous but not deco or nouveau. An ex-skating rink from 1890. I will get the photo up soon, along wit various other architectural pics I've taken.
Re: That building
Date: 2005-03-30 09:44 pm (UTC)The apartment we're in now is one of four in what was built as a single family home sometime around 1900. It looks very similar to J & V's place except it has had some restoration work done on it. There are some pictures of it from before we moved in up here: http://chavaleh.net/gallery/New-House
There seem to be plenty of homes around Atlanta from the same time period and loads of Arts and Crafts cottages. Not much Art Deco here though.
Re: That building
Date: 2005-03-31 01:50 pm (UTC)Re: That building
Date: 2005-04-01 04:16 am (UTC)Pink skating rink
Date: 2005-04-01 11:45 am (UTC)Also up in my journal with some other buildings.