5 - Art Deco - The Architecture Tour

Dunkle's Gulf was built in 1933. This classic example of Art Deco Era design is stop #5 on the tour.

[@brianp.6237]

This video should be a million plus views this was absolutely educational 💯 🔥

[@rondarawson6236]

Yes and I LOVE it....the whole era .....the art deco movement and industrial revolution is fascinating...I also LOVE the Egyptian influences and the Gothic persuasions as well ...I feel most at home in this particular time as it reflects me internally....Thank you for explaining this ....you did so magnificently. I could listen to you talk about this forever.....I wish more people would discuss the architectural magnificence of history and building design.....its fasinating....God bless

[@davidkless9131]

Excellent! I hope the Art Deco buildings still in existence get preserved. I'm always on the lookout for them (look at doorways first--in my opinion they are the best indicator).

[@stephenwilliams4501]

Very interesting, great presenter too.

[@The_Smith]

"Art Deco is an era, not a style" wow, what a concept, this helps clarify so much! thankyou.

[@johnkeviljr9625]

Excellent. You nailed it - an Era..... Art Deco Jewelry, Art Deco Furniture and Art Deco 'Styled' Trains also come to mind.

[@rondarawson6236]

Yes LOVE the trains .....so beautiful...reminds me of the ones in the movies.....so glamorous ..😮

[@acechadwick]

I love the Art Deco era. My house is 'themed' that way. You always feel as if a party is about to break out. Champagne darling?

[@tiziano316]

Wow.. I wonder if i could i see the pics of your house... I am curious. AWESOME!

[@johnbehneman1546]

I LOVE IT!!!! THANKS FOR SHARING!!!!! SO BEAUTIFUL!!!! FORM FOLLOWS FUNCTION.

[@OlgaLevin]

It was walking into two homes built in the 20s and 30s thay got me even more interested in art deco. I already had a strong fascination for 1920's fashion. Sported a finger wave at a friend's wedding several years ago. The gal who did my finger wave was telling me how this was the first hairstyle she had to learn how to make when she was studying cosmotology. She also told me how it was the hardest one to do as well. I asked her, "Why did you have to learn it?" She told me that, that hairstyle is still one that is requested and one that keeps coming back every few years. The Bob cut is the other one. The first time I went into a home that was built in 1924, I was memorized. My mom was doing housekeeping for the family that lives there and she had me come with her a few times to help her out. The hallway foyer that stretches from the office to the kitchen and partially upstairs, is all elaborately wood paneled, had a lot of wood trimming up on the ceiling. The downstairs bathroom has the type of toilet that was common throughout the 20s that had the long metal flush lever like you see in stalls of today's public restrooms. The screen door to the front door is all metal with intricate design and glass in between. The upstairs bathrooms are all tiled from ceiling to floor, which was typical of homes built in the 20s. And the tiling was not some cheap ass work either, those upstairs bathrooms in this house all the tiles used form geometric paterns to fit the whole style of the rest of the house. All the upstairs bathrooms (except the master bedroom and the downstairs bathroom) have square sinks, square mirrors, square patern designs on the walls and etc. The downstairs bathroom and the one in the master bedroom upstairs have octegonal sinks. I've always wanted a bungalow house because I hate fences and love homes with big porches. When I did some research on some bungalow homes online, it just fits perfectly for me to have the inside all done up art deco style. Those types of homes were popular here in Washington State, especially here in Seattle, back in the 1920s. Once I'm able to afford a bungalow, you can bet I'm gonna get down to art decoing the crap out of its interior. It's sad to see those homes now being torn down because of squatters.

[@feemac6561]

I so agree!!

[@dennis_cory]

Art Deco, what an era, thisvideo is so well done. It could have included Miami, a major repository of Art Deco, hundreds of sites are now protected historic landmarks.

[@rondarawson6236]

I wish it had included Miami....😯

[@Armlesscrayon]

Love the era of Art Deco and streamline monderne.

[@EricPennerDFA]

Thank you for sharing! This helped tremendously in helping me with a project that I want to use the styles of that era for.

[@RuthCRucoco]

Thanks HEAPS - You made this ridiculously interesting and super helpful for my Interior Design Studies :)

[@blackjackkuo]

excellent presentation!! thanks!!

[@lindiwe2023]

I have learnt so much... thank you

[@akiyookamoto9230]

I enjoyed your video with nice music. Thank you !

[@vjekoslavpusic]

Beautiful explanation,and that,it is the time after "Great War",the time of joy of life and that spirit of time still lives and today attracts ,as well as me !!!

[@rdpj7791]

Background music is too loud and distracts from your monologue. Your explanation of this era was spot on and I learned something! Thank you😊

[@barbslife5460]

Very educational and interesting. Thank you!

[@MM-le9en]

Even in my small town with already two powerful earthquakes in the last 20 years that destroyed almost everything, there is an abandoned Art Deco Cinema still up waiting to be restored and cleaned, I hope it will be rescued one day.

[@VictoriaGrasiano]

GREAT VIDEO!!!

[@preciousbodilyfluid1]

Great video. Love the presenter

[@ToxicHedgie]

Very helpful, thank you

[@bythealphabet]

Wow this video was very entertaining

[@thejerseyj1636]

Informative and enjoyable. And, a great example of why men should where Fedora's once again !

[@ProjectSkrillexNL]

thank you so much for that first minute god damn I always wondered

[@sgtmajtom06]

Very very cool. Very.

[@eternalstudent465]

Thank you for the video))

[@csm5040]

I love Art Deco.

[@toboncarlos]

Thanks!

[@davidironside6100]

very great

[@olitonottero7620]

Love it

[@Mark-fv8vt]

thanks, it's helpful

[@MSYNGWIE12]

Now THAT'S a gas station I could live next to! Here's to Dick Dunkle!

[@Yusa9204]

A very fine presenter!

[@dennistice982]

Thanks William. A very fine (and appreciated) comment!

[@oktavia_kirana]

my new idol

[@newvilla8115]

What is the difference between neo-classical vs art deco buildings? thanks

[@rogerbeltz2370]

Enjoyed your video. Love the Art Deco styles, ooops, I guess, as you say, Art Deco is not an "official" style...........(let's use the term "theme") which evolved from the art form, Art Nouveau that first gained international attention at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, France. This little gas station in Bedford, Pennsylvania is an exquisite example of the basic Art Deco geometric architecture. Unfortunately, this little gas station is on U.S. highway 30, surrounded by highway signs, stops signs, street lighting and blase' structures which certainly do not enhance the beauty of the Art Deco structure.

[@joycebanton7743]

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[@Apis4]

You're looking at proportions and colours, layout and floorplan, and saying 'See the similarities? me either". Look at the GEOMETRY, all those buildings DO look the same when you look at the geometry, in both the architecture itself, and design it holds. Art Deco IS a style, just one with a few expressions. The movement which would become 'Art Deco' started before the 20s, actually, and was rooted in a romantic artistic idealism and nostalgia centred around the architecture of the classical world, most notably Ancient Egypt. How this manifested in the architecture of the mid teens through mid forties of the twentieth century, was almost universal, however, there is are so many ways you can take that as a starting point, and come up with so many different things. The 'Brown Brick" Art Deco five storey 'flats' block, built in Sydney, Australia, will NOT look like the pastel stucco 'Deco Moderne' Art Deco Hotel in Miami, USA, which will not look like the 'French Deco' Semi Detached in Cambrai, France, which will not look like the 'Classical Art Deco" of Empire State Building, New York City USA, which will not look like the 'Industrial Deco' Art Deco factory in Liverpool, England. Well.... not at a glance. But when you look at the quite unique narrow coastal sea view block of flats in Manly, Sydeny, you see that the same roundness is there, as the Deco Moderne hotel in Miami, but just less pronounced. The place looks square, and narrow, too tall for how narrow it is, despite being only four or five floors, and obelisk... with horns of stepped brick above the doors and windows, and two protruding above the roof..... but then... all four corners of the building, and the deco decoration, have rounded edges... just very slightly, small, almost imperceptible., and it you painted those brown brick protrusions White, or made them from marble, or gold... suddenly... it would be pure NYC Jazz Club Art Deco. Likewise, Miami hotel shares the same homage geometrically to the ancient world of pyramids too, but it is compressed... swaps height and narrowness for width, but when you look, you can see they've made little suggestions hither and dither, in the way there is raised edging, a slight lip here, some flared hemispherical relief there, almost unseen as well. Not only can you see how if you reorientated it, and messed with proportions, it COULD look like the former, thousands of kilometers away, in another city on another continent, but also, how if you did the same the other way, messed with this orientation here, that proportion there, this scale here, you could almost make something that looked like an Art Deco Skyscraper in New York City. Art Deco took on different proportions, orientations of different characteristics, and different focus on those, ergo, some being more important than others, depending on the location, and time, and the culture it was built in, but when you look at it, if you know what to look for, you CAN actually see how all those buildings are connected. How the early French Deco lowrise town house of 1919, connects to the Deco Moderne Miami hotel of the late 30s, and how that hotel connects to the early 40s Skyscraper at the other end of the East Coast in NYC, and how THAT connects to the late 40s Brown Brick Deco flats complex on the Gold Coast of Queensland, Australia. They ARE all stylistically connected, they ARE all ONE style. Because GEOMETRY, not design, not colour, not material, and not proportion, determines Art Deco.

[@dieterlorenzfrischknecht1961]

Americana! Bull!

[@ryan_edmond]

i learned way too much from one video what the heck

[@jayjay-bz3rr]

VOILA! DUNKLE’S GULF. 5:26

[@flareknuckles]

Ok

[@Bance__]

Poggers

[@yellinghat]

Dick Dunkle has w rizz. Edit: lul Edit 2: double lul

[@chrissimmonds3734]

Really good but music is a pain

[@sunnyday7843]

I watched in silence - the music on most of these really irritates - Love the pictures and the man’s style ! Still love it - some of us have very sensitive hearing and the background music is painful - hope I am not seeming to be rude :)

[@patrickbaillargeon8051]

Too bad he is so often wrong or giving incomplete info.

[@finddeniro]

Too much misinformation. . Everywhere ...I quit retail sales. .70 % of the public are dolts.