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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mrbrklyn, post: 590083, member: 4381&quot;]Well, two things converged to bring the Art Deco movement into existence.&nbsp; First was the large number of monumental works and arches that were produced in Romanistic and Neo-classical style as the 50th anniversary of the civil war emerged around 1915.&nbsp; Many arches, murals and buildings commemorating the war by the generation that lived through it caused a large building boom requiring new artistic decorations and statues through out the north, cumulating with the 50th anniversary of the war. </p><p><br /></p><p>The second driving force was the new building techniques used through out the 1920&#039;s starting in earnest with completion of the Woolworth building in Manhattan, and through the building boom with ultimated produced the Empire State Building and the Chrysler buildings in Midtown, and being crowned by the production of Rockefeller Center, the crown jewel of Art Decco design.&nbsp; It was also influenced by the painting of Picasso and Matise who experimented with open weighted fields and expressive distortion of classical realism.&nbsp; The SLQ design is a direct child of this flow of this new aesthetic vocabulary, as was the St Guald and Walker for that matter.</p><p><br /></p><p>Ruben[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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