Lauderdale means it can offer more space and a closer proximity to the ocean than the Deco hotels of Miami Beach.
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When the Deco craze swept the city in the 1930s, the style became so popular that the furniture was mass-produced and offered for sale in the city's fancy Nanjing Road department stores, says Wm.
You can take in a movie at the Deco-style Cathay Theatre, completed in the early 1930s, which has a neon-lit spire towering over its marquee, or dance in the ballroom of the Paramount dance hall, which opened at about the same time.
WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand
One of the clearest examples of the Shanghai Deco style is the old Bank of China headquarters building next to the Peace Hotel on the Bund.
WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand
"What's happening now is similar to what happened in the Art Deco period, when the city developed a collaborative of architects who played off each other's designs, " says William Cary, assistant director of the Miami Beach planning department.
The swiveling case of the Art Deco-style watch protected the dial and offered a surface that, as of the 1930s, could be personalized by means of engraving or enamel.
The team restoring the Art Deco building will refer to the original architectural plans used at the time of the construction of the landmark in 1933, Battersea Power Station Development Company said.
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The art deco Market Street National Bank is now the Marriott Residence Inn Philadelphia Center City.
His mansion in the art deco section of Miami was modelled on the 16th-century Castle of Columbus in the Dominican Republic.
Barnsley's centre does crown a hill, and the Art Deco town hall clock tower might be vaguely related to a campanile, but there the resemblance to anything Italian ends.
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Born in 1920s Europe, the Art Deco aesthetic -- inspired by advances in technology and industry -- quickly spread across the Atlantic.
WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand
The new group said it hoped to have the art deco pool open 12 months a year.
Developer Capital and Centric has applied to acquire the art deco building on Edge Lane and turn it into a hotel.
Stacy Kiebler was in a crystal beaded gunmetal short dress by Colette Dinnigan that echoed the spirit of the Art Deco.
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On a recent day, hard-hat construction workers were inspecting the Art Deco and Belle Epoque buildings, which are classified as historical monuments.
South Beach and the Art Deco buildings along Ocean Avenue were an ideal backdrop for videos and photo spreads, and not surprisingly featured heavily in countless scenes throughout Miami Vice's five seasons.
The hotel -- with a tower topped by a sharply pitched pyramidal roof -- became the Art Deco trendsetter for Shanghai as soon as it opened its doors in 1929.
WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand
"We have a clear customer focus, which is: People who want to make money in print, " says Bernhard Schreier, Heidelberger Druck's 47-year-old CEO, over breakfast at the art deco corporate cafe in Heidelberg.
But few places in the world embraced Art Deco with the fervor of Shanghai, a city obsessed with fashion and fixated on being up-to-date -- in part because of the view, prevalent in China at the time, that only by modernizing could the country regain its strength and stand up to Western imperialism and a militant Japan.
WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand
While it remained 0-0, Ferguson - mindful of his side's failure to get anything out of four of their last five away matches against a 'big four' team - was by far the more comfortable manager and it was Blues boss Carlo Ancelotti who blinked first from the sidelines, bringing on Joe Cole for the ineffective Deco.
The upscale Art Deco space draws stylish locals to check out the crowd and sample whatever is fresh on the big raw bar.
When fashion king Calvin Klein first purchased the South half of the 5, 000-square-foot, two-level penthouse in the iconic Art Deco building at 55 Central Park West, the designer installed a hot tub on the rooftop terrace.
Whether they can pull it off and turn the hotel into a Deco moneymaker for a new era will have a lot of influence on how much the city government and others invest in renovations of other Deco structures.
WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand
For now, however, part of the allure of Shanghai for Deco aficionados is the general dilapidation of many buildings, which can give explorers the feeling at times of unearthing architectural fossils.
WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand
Li Shichun, who runs the downtown furniture shop Vintiques Shanghai Art Deco, says there used to be a fairly steady flow of Deco pieces onto the market, driven by the demolition of old homes to make way for new construction and a general attitude among locals that Deco furniture wasn't something worth keeping.
Just a minute later, Ronaldo popped up to put Portugal in the lead for the second time with a sharp right-foot effort from just inside the penalty area after Deco cut inside and slid the ball into his path.
Over time, the city developed its own Deco style, fusing the myriad influences of its polyglot population into distinctive designs.
WSJ: Touring Asia's Art Deco Gems in Shanghai and Napier, New Zealand
The Elgin Theatre, an elegant Art Deco structure on the corner of Eighth Avenue and West Nineteenth Street, in Chelsea, was a movie theatre when it opened, in 1941.
When you need a break from the sun, hop on a tour of the neighbourhood, taking in the largest collection of Streamline Moderne Art Deco architecture in the world.
Both men focused on the same handful of Deco masters, including Ruhlmann and Gray, so the Greenberg sale could offer a fresh test of their asking prices.
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