Comment by rblion

7 years ago

Wow. I love the Art Deco style. My absolute favorite aesthetic right now, maybe ever. I haven't found anything I like more to be honest except Classical.

I was at the Hoover Dam recently, and I was struck by how Socialist Realist (read: Soviet) much of the original art looks:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/GTQxcVtVKhgTURsG9

My favorite structure is probably the improbably Star Wars/Tatooine flavored parking garage though!

  • That's how a lot of stuff from that era looked in the US. The roaring 20s and the bummer-30s had lots of stuff like that. Maybe you just have an incorrect mental 1:1 mapping between stuff popular 100 years ago everywhere and the Soviets?

    • Well, me, too. Apparently the Soviets adopted the blocky, "science is the progress of mankind toward a brighter future for you!" theme from us and used it so well, that I attribute such design elements to the Soviets exclusively.

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