{"id":4629,"date":"2021-02-07T20:34:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-07T20:34:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/?p=4629"},"modified":"2021-02-07T20:34:24","modified_gmt":"2021-02-07T20:34:24","slug":"art-deco-a-style-from-another-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brendans-island.com\/catholic-citizen\/art-deco-a-style-from-another-era\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Deco, a Style From Another Era"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\"Detail:<\/a>I like Art Deco.<\/p>\n

Partly because I see it as one of the 20th century’s better ideas.<\/p>\n

One of the more upbeat ones, anyway.<\/p>\n

“…During its heyday, Art Deco represented luxury, glamour, exuberance, and faith in social and technological progress….”
\n(Art Deco<\/a>, Wikipedia)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then we got Modernist architecture, hula hoops and the Sixties.<\/p>\n

I’ve talked about that before.<\/p>\n

“Folks who saw virtue in unquestioning devotion to established values didn\u2019t like the 1960s. No institution, custom or belief seemed safe from scrutiny.<\/p>\n

“Even the idea of progress \u2014 a cherished heirloom from the Age of Enlightenment \u2014 was challenged, disputed, and ultimately rejected.<\/p>\n

“Visions of a technotopia, where our greatest challenge was deciding how to spend our leisure time, were fading….”
\n(“Homer, Hegel, History and Hope<\/a>” (May 12, 2018))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Assuming that progress is inevitably progressive wasn’t and isn’t a good idea. Neither, I think, is assuming that we can’t learn. I put the usual links to more of my take on this and other topics at the end of this journal entry.<\/p>\n

The photos show Timothy Pflueger’s 450 Sutter in San Francisco’s \u2014 lobby, I think. The first is from The Art Deco Society of California<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This next is from Harsch Investment Properties<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I made a point of visiting 450 Sutter when I lived in San Francisco. What I remember wasn’t as shiny as these photos. Maybe they didn’t have all the lights on when I was there.<\/p>\n

More:<\/p>\n