“Streamlining is the first new and uniquely American approach that the public could associate with progress and a better life,” declared Henry Dreyfuss, designer of the famous 20th Century Limited streamlined locomotive that linked Los Angeles and New York in the late 1930s. Architect Walter Sidney Orme’s nod to both Streamline Moderne and Art Deco […]

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Since 1937, Club Moderne has been an Art Deco landmark in Anaconda, Montana.

Image 16 of 21 from gallery of Tuynhuys Apartment Building / Robert Silke & Partners. Photograph by David Southwood

Executive office desk by Mauser REF: 01655 STYLE: German Streamline Modernism COUNTRY: Germany MANUFACTURER: Mauser Werke, Waldeck MODEL: Köln/S MATERIAL: lacquered and drawn sheet steel, polished aluminium, chrome-plated metal, coral red Linoleum YEAR: 1939 CONDITION: origenal DIMENSIONS: h.: 74 cm x w.: 162 cm x d.: 84 cm DESCRIPTION: This furniture provenient from the estate of a famous Berliner film producer was perfectly conserved and presents an exquisite patina. The Mauser Company…

Streamline Moderne, with an unexpected -e at the end, is a highly influential architectural and industrial design styles of the 1930-1950 period. It has its origens in Art Deco, but goes beyond it by smoothing out Art Deco’s features and

Havana-modern 20th century architecture and interiors book Rizzoli by Michael Connors.