Houses of the Art Deco Years

Jean Gardner

• 01 maart 2004
• 9781898030713

Samenvatting:

More and more features showing the influence of Art Deco styles become apparent as you look at houses. Even the most ordinary looking house might include miniature arches over the drainpipe hoppers or a few edges on tiles replacing a single brick. The semi-detached house is the common symbol of the era, gaining its popularity over terraced properties because of the privacy afforded by the sideway linking the front and back gardens. The first time owners were free to beautify their homes as they wished. The bold colours of the Jazz Age reached them as two-tone paintwork on almost every bay window. Painters spent hours cutting in green on cream or scarlet on white around each individual pane of glass but today these labour intensive colour schemes are rarely seen.