Modernism London Style chronicles the creativity of the 'architects' and designers of the period, as well as the currents in the city’s culture that helped shape their work. Architecture scholar Adam Caruso sheds light on the key features of the Art Deco style and architectural historian Christoph Rauhut and photographer Niels Lehmann capture the architectural Art Deco heritage of London in a photographic tour.
In the 1920s, London was changing. In contrast with London’s ageing Victorian structures, the bright and colourful architecture of modernism - from the Hoover Factory to the Ideal House by Raymond Hood, who later designed New York’s Rockefeller Center -communicated the city’s aspirations as a thriving, modern metropolis.
Modernism London Style chronicles the creativity of the 'architects' and designers of the period, as well as the currents in the city’s culture that helped shape their work. Architecture scholar Adam Caruso sheds light on the key features of the Art Deco style and architectural historian Christoph Rauhut and photographer Niels Lehmann capture the architectural Art Deco heritage of London in a photographic tour.
In the 1920s, London was changing. In contrast with London’s ageing Victorian structures, the bright and colourful architecture of modernism - from the Hoover Factory to the Ideal House by Raymond Hood, who later designed New York’s Rockefeller Center -communicated the city’s aspirations as a thriving, modern metropolis. Today millions of visitors admire the old headquarters of the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Express, take in the elegance of Eltham Palace, or sip a martini at the Savoy.
London’s busiest, yet often overlooked Art Deco treasure, the London Underground, boasts a series of Art Deco and modernist stations, designed throughout the 1920s and 1930s by noted architect Charles Holden.
