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Hello.

A few weeks ago I went to a talk about Art Deco.
It was very good.

The thing that surprised me about the Art Deco buildings was that the step-like structure you see in the facade of the buildings came from New York, and it was so that sky scrapers would let light down to the smaller buildings.

The Art Deco era was also the era of the flats.
Some flats were built in the gardens of Mansions and some Mansions were divided into flats.

Most of the time Art Deco buildings have a tower so that they could just peek up over the height law that the prime minister had created.
A lot of the buildings also had secret rooms so that they could hide money from the tax collector.
Some had racing stripes on the building 'coz it was the era of speed as well.

There's one town in New Zealand, Napier, that has Art Deco every where.
If you want to know more about it, then click here.

I'm signed up for another lecture about Art-Deco.

Art-Deco was a style of lines and then circles called Geometric. It wasn't just with buildings, it was also with women's clothing, jewellery and tables, chairs, etc.
It took the world by storm.
It was lovely and it still is.
It was as if it happened over night, that's how quick it happened.