Streamline Moderne
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Streamline Moderne is an international style of Art Deco architecture and design that emerged in the 1930s. Inspired by aerodynamic design, it emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, and some
SF Maritime Museum
NY Worlds' Fair streamlined Hudson LC G613 T01 35339 DLC
Blytheville Greyhound Bus Station
Julian Medical Building in Hollywood, California, by Morgan, Walls & Clements (1934)
SS Normandie
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SS Normandie was a French ocean liner built in Saint-Nazaire, France, for the French Line Compagnie Générale Transatlantique. She entered service in 1935 as the largest and fastest passenger ship aflo
Streamline Moderne
…sleekness and modernity. In France, it was called the style paquebot, or "ocean liner style", and was influenced by the design of the luxury ocean liner SS Normandie, launched in 1932. As the Great Depression of the 1930s progressed, Americans saw a new architectural style emerge as industrial designers stripped Art…
Normandie at sea c. 1935–1936
Adolphe Cassandre's famed 1935 depiction of the Normandie
Vladimir Yourkevitch working on design of the Normandie
Normandie under construction, 1932