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« Reply #2 on: January 20, 2016, 09:07:31 am » |
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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
There's always that splendid series, Agatha Christie's Hercules Poirot. Apart from the delight of watching David Suchet in the role, the sets and costuming are beautifully done.
For your reading list, I'd recommend Somerset Maugham.
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Prof. Cecily
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« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2016, 10:23:48 am » |
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Ah, the faded glory of the interwar years! The Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse, or the Jeeves and Wooster TV show with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. The Victoria and Albert Museum has a rather nifty reading guide to Art Deco - Located hereThe Great Gatsby (film or book) would also be handy on any viewing/reading list. Of course, the interwar period wasn't just all curvy deco, we've got the birth of many styles, the large majority of which were concerned with either the horror of WW1 or the swooshiness of new technology. De Stijl / Neoplasticism pops up in the Netherlands, Modernism arrives and just won't go away (Blame Van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright), they're following on from the Futurists who made it out of WW1 intact. There's also Dada, which leads into Surrealism, the Bauhaus school emerges in Germany as a successor to the Arts and Crafts Movement and in Russia there's the arrival of Constructivism, tangentilly this links to Cosmism, which really shouldn't be confused with Cosmicism. |
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« Reply #4 on: January 20, 2016, 10:15:14 pm » |
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Good morning, ladies and gentlemen.
There's always that splendid series, Agatha Christie's Hercules Poirot. Apart from the delight of watching David Suchet in the role, the sets and costuming are beautifully done.
For your reading list, I'd recommend Somerset Maugham.
I remain yours,
Prof. Cecily
Yes ! Agatha Christie . Peter Ustinov also did a good turn in the Poirot role . There was some wonderful authors of that era . I remember childrens books passed down to my older siblings that made their mark on me . Biggles, Just William, Ginger Megs, My Friend Flicker, ... Illustrations from then were fairly evocative of the times. |
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« Reply #5 on: January 20, 2016, 10:32:57 pm » |
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Ah, the faded glory of the interwar years! The Jeeves stories by P. G. Wodehouse, or the Jeeves and Wooster TV show with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry. The Victoria and Albert Museum has a rather nifty reading guide to Art Deco - Located hereThe Great Gatsby (film or book) would also be handy on any viewing/reading list. Of course, the interwar period wasn't just all curvy deco, we've got the birth of many styles, the large majority of which were concerned with either the horror of WW1 or the swooshiness of new technology. De Stijl / Neoplasticism pops up in the Netherlands, Modernism arrives and just won't go away (Blame Van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright), they're following on from the Futurists who made it out of WW1 intact. There's also Dada, which leads into Surrealism, the Bauhaus school emerges in Germany as a successor to the Arts and Crafts Movement and in Russia there's the arrival of Constructivism, tangentilly this links to Cosmism, which really shouldn't be confused with Cosmicism. Thanks for those hunting hints. There was more than Art Deco & Art Nouveau going on through those years. The military and industrial influence and experience was strong in that era. |
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« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2016, 03:41:04 am » |
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Do you remember the BBC show "House of Elliot" about two sisters in ~1920 who open a fashion house.
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« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2016, 11:09:05 pm » |
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I like the website called The Fedora Lounge. It's a board for aficinados of the 30s and 40s.
As a new zealander, I assume you are aware of the town called Napier and it's architecture.
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« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2016, 11:11:39 am » |
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I like the website called The Fedora Lounge. It's a board for aficinados of the 30s and 40s.
As a new zealander, I assume you are aware of the town called Napier and it's architecture.
Thank you for sharing the site. I have never been to Napier, one day I will. My dad used to visit there a lot. He loved it there. It was rebuilt after a major mega thrust earthquake in 1931. The books make it look lovely there with all the Deco buildings . Have you been there ?  |
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« Reply #12 on: January 23, 2016, 07:55:05 am » |
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Miss Miranda You fairly made my day with that link . I too have a secret penchant for flying boats and vintage travel posters of that era. I have had the good fortune to travel on a flying boat some years ago. It was a marvelous landing ! One day I shall do it again ! New Zealand was at the fore front of air travel in the early days of aviation, because it was so far away . Air ship moorings were planned for here after the WW1, events meant that development was stopped. |
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« Reply #13 on: January 23, 2016, 03:17:01 pm » |
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I have a 1930s travel poster with an airship, hanging over my bed. I bought it at the Zeppelin museum in Friedrichshafen.
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« Reply #15 on: January 25, 2016, 10:34:10 am » |
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Zeppelin, dirigible, airship ... the sound of the words as they trip off the tongue , the curving shape and contours , the intriguing history lend these craft a certain romance that makes it difficult to remember they were real and may well be a regular feature in our future skies. They are just beautiful  |
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« Reply #16 on: March 03, 2016, 08:20:49 am » |
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Miss Fishers Muder Mysteries (who says crime doesn't play?)
(also, the original books by Kerry Greenwood. Which turn out differently, therefore if you've read them the series will, reportedtly, not make much sense.)
Aviation was such a big element in the culture of the world then, it would be worth looking up those pioneering flyers, Bert Hinkler, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and so many others, some of whom had purchased Kingsford-Smiths redundant aircraft! Especially look up the "Coffee-Royal Affair".
As for architecture, in much of the world there were still Gothic revivals being built, Some even new, although many were simply such large projects that some were started in the 1910s and still in progress until the 1990s. Mission Revival went until the mid-1930s in the New World, as was Mayan Revival, and after WW! the Clifornia Bungalow style spread from the US to Australia, where it was adapted into the Ashgrovian style Queenslander, then to the rest of the world. Functionalism continued until the 1930s, as did Bauhaus, and Streamline Moderne was in style in the early '30s.
Of course, the culture of the era was not evenly distributed all over the world; some imports were impractical, such as Hollywood-style houses in northern Australia which had the pool deck developed over; while the world had moved on from the anachronistic Model T, half the worlds motorists were still driving them, and had to contend with the same dirt track roads, which they had to share with horses and oxen, as you would see in a Wild West cowtown; and while railways across the word adopted streamliners such as the Flying Hamburger, A4, Princess Coronation and the Hiawathas, Australia, despite the Spirit of Progress, still had the old Ghan, Forty-two Up and the Aramac-Barcaldine. Which, when the track was actually usable, still drove at a snails pace...
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« Reply #17 on: March 03, 2016, 08:53:21 am » |
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New Zealand and Australia were at the fore front of aviation due to the long distance from the Northern Hemisphere and their isolated locations. There are amazing travel posters and photos from back in the day ; along with some very interesting books on the history of flight in the Antipodes.
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« Reply #18 on: March 03, 2016, 09:29:30 am » |
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Sorry for the errors, rudeness and stupidity. It's not me, this online translator. Really convenient?
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« Reply #20 on: March 04, 2016, 12:58:08 am » |
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Ah yes, the first historical timeperiod I fell in love with. I have many books and artifacts from and about those years.
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Have you heard? It's in the stars, next July we collide with Mars.
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« Reply #21 on: March 04, 2016, 12:02:04 pm » |
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New Zealand and Australia were at the fore front of aviation due to the long distance from the Northern Hemisphere and their isolated locations. There are amazing travel posters and photos from back in the day ; along with some very interesting books on the history of flight in the Antipodes.
Check out the second part of this 1936 newsreel footage, showing an alleged recruitment centre for flight attendants in 1936 (there is a lot fishy about this) once they began to allow women to be flight attendants. In fact, the site itself is full of old newsreel footage from the era. |
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« Reply #22 on: March 04, 2016, 12:31:10 pm » |
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Well, not really my favourite style, or political inclination. But here is one painted by Diego Rivera to match those other paintings... Mexico City. Palacio de Bellas Artes: Mural "El Hombre en la encrucijada" ( 1934 ) by Diego Rivera Aztec production of gold https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_RiveraAnd who can forget his wife, Frida Kahlo? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frida_Kahlo |
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« Reply #23 on: March 04, 2016, 12:32:11 pm » |
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There is something striking about that one. There is eye catching soviet propaganda art from that era |
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« Reply #24 on: March 04, 2016, 12:33:29 pm » |
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Well, not really my favourite style. But here is one painted by Diego Rivera to match those other paintings... Mexico City. Palacio de Bellas Artes: Mural "El Hombre en la encrucijada" ( 1934 ) by Diego Rivera That is quite a piece |
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