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Originally Posted by MolsonExport
I am going full Shatner.
Art. Deco. Is the. Best. Architectural. Style. Of the. Past. 100. Years.
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I think we like Art Deco because it was a short-lived architectural style that was tragically cut short at its prime by the events of the Second World War.
Art Deco is the architectural equivalent of musicians that died at 27. If they would have survived into middle age, they'd be making watered-down songs and having embarrassing reunion tours.
It would be funny to think what Art Deco would have devolved into if it had been able to run out a natural life like the Modernist/International style. Nowadays modernism is a mixed bag. We fondly remember things like Mies, but we also remember horrendous housing projects and the late stage bastardization of the style into today's cookie cutter condos.