"A fascinating and fabulously visual must-read for Art Deco devotees, architecture aficionados and anyone with a keen interest in Scottish and British public landscapes."
Contextualised through tracing Art Deco history, from when the term was coined by Le Corbusier on the occasion of the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industries Modernes in Paris, Bruce Peter’s Art Deco Scotland is endlessly informative, and often surprising, in that it showcases the remarkable richness of Scotland’s arguably unlikely Art Deco heritage.
As Peter notes in his introduction, “With a northerly maritime climate, Scotland may have seemed an unlikely place for large numbers of buildings and instances of design and visual culture exhibiting elements reflective of the sunny south and of smart metropolises such as Paris and New York to have materialised”. And yet Scotland has far more than its fair share of buildings that encapsulate the glamour, elegance and understated luxury of Art Deco design, even in unexpected locations like Tobermory and Stornoway.
Covering iconic Scottish buildings and Scotland-built ships that encapsulate Art Deco’s sublime elegance, among them Glasgow’s Tower of Empire, Beresford Hotel, and the exquisite Queen Mary ship, along with houses, hospitals and handsome lidos, Art Deco Scotland is also incredibly informative on social context, delightfully readable, and a beautiful book to return to for aesthetic pleasure.
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Art Deco is a design style infused with glamour and energy. Emerging from the smart metropolises of Paris and New York in the 1920s, its impact quickly spread beyond these cities. A remarkable range of Art Deco objects, structures and images were created in Scotland as architects and designers incorporated features of Art Deco and moderne into their work. These forms were to be found in fashionable new villas, luxury ocean liners and the fleeting Empire Exhibition, as well as in everyday spaces such as shops, lidos, tramcars, cafes, cinemas and even pithead baths. In Art Deco Scotland, Professor Bruce Peter explores the variety of Art Deco architecture and design across the country, including iconic structures such as the Beresford Hotel, the Radio Cinema in Kilbirnie, the Portobello Lido, the Tower of Empire in Glasgow and the Clyde-built Queen Mary.
Art Deco Scotland features in the following genres: History, Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure, Architecture, The Arts, Architecture
Art Deco Scotland is available in Hardback
Art Deco Scotland was written by Bruce Peter and published by Historic Environment Scotland
Art Deco Scotland has 368 pages
£27.00
