Links to Art Deco Designers and Architects Web Sites

History of Industrial Design
Concise overview of the movements and the designers who were influential in developing Industrial Design as it is practised today.

Raymond Loewy
The official website of Raymond Loewy.

Raymond Loewy Foundation
Raymond Loewy “the man who shaped America.”

Raymond Loewy
Brief biography of American industrial designer Raymond Loewy. Also: a few examples of his designs.

Virtual Design Museum: Raymond Loewy

Inventing the "Jet Age" in America
Biography of Norman Bel Geddes, Broadway stage designer turned industrial designer.

More on Norman Bel Geddes
Industrial designer, bus streamliner and flying car designer.

Bel Geddes Airliner No 4
In 1929 Norman Bel Geddes he proposed the Airliner Number 4 as the transatlantic airliner of 1940s. It would have 9 decks, a main lounge 36 ft high, a library, a dance floor for 100 couples and orchestra,an area for deck games including deck tennis, shuffle board and quoits and a promenade deck! needing 20 engines to lift the ship off the water.

Streamlining by Norman Bel Geddes

Gilbert Rohde
A modernist from New York, Rohdes pieces are influuenced by the simplicity of Bauhaus design and ornamentation of Art Deco. He worked predominantly in Bakelite and chrome.

Gilbert Rohde Items on Architonic

Kem Weber
Karl Emanuel Martin Weber was a German furniture and industrial designer, architect and teacher who accidentaly emigrated to the US in 1915. He had an affinity for the streamlined style of the times. his Zephyr clock of 1933 was the inspiration for our asymmetric zephyr Fireplace.

K.E.M. Weber's Bixby House

K.E.M. Weber items on Architonic

Donald Deskey
Inspired by Art Deco Minnesota born Donald Deskey helped establish a look that became known as "Streamlined Modern."

Donald Deskey items on Architonic

Warren McArthur
Warren McArthurs furniture helped define the glamour of 1930s Art Deco curves,

Warren McArthur Items on Architonic

Walter Dorwin Teague
Walter Dorwin Teague was an industrial designer who pioneered in the establishment of industrial design as a profession in the United States.

Walter Dorwin Teague items on Architonic

Marcel Breuer
Hungary born architect.By 1935 her was one of the best-known designers in Europe based upon his architecture and invention of tubular steel furniture. During WWII his partnership with Walter Gropius revolutionized American house design.

Mies Van der Rohe

The John Parkinson Archives
John Parkinson was apprenticed to a builder in Bolton and developed his architectural skills at night school before emigrating to America. His second architectural practice was in Los Angeles where he designed the city's first Class "A" fireproof steel-frame structure, the Homer Laughlin Building and his design for the 1904 Braly Block at Fourth Street and Spring became the first "skyscraper" built in Los Angeles, the tallest structure in town until the completion of City Hall in 1928.

Charles Holden
Charles Holden is best known for the London Underground stations he designed for the London Passenger Board in the 1920s and 30s

Paul Frankl items on Architonic
Paul Frankl was the first American designer to produce a totally original American furniture design with his 'Skyscraper' bookcases with stepped silhouettes echoing New York City's ever-rising buildings.

Eileen Gray
One of the most important furniture designers and architects of the early 20th century. Her work inspired both modernism and Art Deco.

Clarice Cliff
Everything Clarice Cliff

Deco and Nouveau Dutch Gouda Pottery
A site is devoted to the beautiful and colourful
Dutch Art Pottery called Gouda

The Susie Cooper Information Site

Age of Jazz: British Art Deco Ceramics
exhibition at the Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Gallery of paintings by Tamara de Lempicka

Fair Park Mural Conservation Project aims to conserve the murals of Carlo Ciampaglia at Fair Park, Dallas, a product of the 1936 Texas Centennial Celebration. Illustrated history of Fair Park, project overview and progress.

Art By Rosie
deco style paintings by English artist

V&A Museum: Art Deco Exhibition
includes virtual tour, Art Deco resources and information, visiting times, quiz, and activities.

Wikipedia: Art Deco
Overview of the decorative arts movement including information on noted artists, architects, and famous designs.

ArtLex on Art Deco
presents the influences, aspects, and artwork examples of the art movement celebrating the rise of commerce, technology, and speed.

Artcyclopedia: Art Deco
Chronological listing of affiliated artists, and art history relevance of the movement spanning the 1920s to 1930s.

Twentieth Century Fireplace-UK

Twentieth Century Fireplaces are Fireplace manufacturers and suppliers of original and reproduction Fireplaces, Fireplace inserts, Fireplace Mantels or fire surrounds, stoves and tiles.

Our Fireplace styles range from Art Deco period Fireplaces to contemporary Fireplaces and are suitable for solid fuel and coal effect gas fires.

We offer a restoration service for Antique Fireplaces including Cast Iron Fireplaces, Marble Fireplaces and Wooden Fireplace Mantels and we have a tile library for replacing lost or broken tiles

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