Art Deco Shanghai 2015

The 2015 Shanghai World Congress on Art Deco will be held in November. Read More

William Lingenbrink’s Modernistic Art Deco Los Angeles

Lingenbrink house for NX-60070

Lingenbrink’s publications pictured early Los Angeles Art Deco, predating the streamline style, which, like the Depression, would arrive soon enough. Read More

A Streamline Moderne Shangri-La

Pepperdine-2 for NX-60070

These days, finding a large group of Art Deco or Streamline Moderne buildings that you are welcome to photograph and having the place to yourself just doesn’t happen….. Read More

Lawson Art Deco Clocks in the Movies

Why aren’t Lawson clocks seen in the movies? Turns out, they are. Read More

The Fountain at Park Moderne

Park Moderne (1 of 2)

In 1931, William Lingenbrink founded a small artist’s colony in Calabasas, California. The cottages were modest, but certainly not boring. Read More

Mexico City’s Art Deco – The Case of the Square Spiral

spiral for wp (2 of 2)

Perhaps an early tribute to an Aztec god of Art Deco? Read More

Art Deco Separated at Birth #7 – East Finchley Station & Pepperdine University

SAB for WP (5 of 6)

Here we have two fine examples of Streamline Moderne, each sporting not one, but two cylinders. Read More

Decopix Art Deco Patent of the Week – Handless Clock by M.A. Vinas

Handless clock patent-2-60070

Some people have gotten the idea that Lawson and Pennwood were the first digital clocks. Not by a long shot. Read More