Inevitably Square: Our Century’s Roaring ’20s are Taking Shape, but Will Art Deco Come with It"
If you can believe it, it?s the 2020s. With this new decade and its familiar historical parallels of global turmoil like that seen a century ago in the times of the Spanish Flu, a rising, not-so-quiet chorus of whispers have been circulating about a collective cultural recall for the good times that followed then, and with hope, also now.
In tentative celebration of this much-wished-for next era, young revelers across the United States have overtaken public spaces in spirited jubilation, producing scenes this past summer that would likely not look out of place in a post-WWI America, with spaces like Washington Square Park in New York this past June, among others, becoming weekly serendipitous parties. Brands, similarly ? both in the watch industry and outside it ? have begun to shape their communications to a world and economy in recovery.
Via Stephanie Keith for The New York Times
It seems thus that in our own post-pandemic world, the idealized memory of last century’s Roaring ?20s looms large, with its festive appeal steadily garnering greater intrigue and influence. And since it?s been a hundred years since the 1920s, it seems also natural that a renewed interest in that era, and by extension the Art Deco styles that defined it, is predictable.
?And I like large parties. They?re so intimate. At small parties there isn?t any privacy.?
Art Deco is most famously seen in the architecture of the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings, though the 20...
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