The hotels in the Art Deco District -Miami Beach — Susan Gale
The Art Deco movement originated in the 1920s and developed into a major style in western Europe and the United States during the 1930s.
Its name was derived from the ‘Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes’, held in Paris in 1925, where the style was first exhibited.
The distinguishing features of the style are simple, clean shapes, often with a “streamlined” look; ornament that is geometric or stylized from representational forms; and unusually varied, often expensive materials, which frequently include man-made substances (plastics, especially Bakelite; vita-glass; and ferroconcrete) in addition to natural ones (jade, silver, ivory, obsidian, chrome, and rock crystal).
Though Art Deco objects were rarely mass-produced, the characteristic features of the style reflected admiration for the modernity of the machine and for the inherent design qualities of machine-made objects (e.g., relative simplicity, planarity, symmetry, and unvaried repetition of elements).
Miami South Beach Art Deco architecture is world famous. I had the chance to spend one day in Miami South Beach on a family visit to the Gulf Coast of Florida in February. I always say that a short trip is better than no trip at all so I definitely made the most of my time in the Miami Beach Art Deco Historic District before my flight out of Miami Airport. It’s easy to fill 24 hours in Miami South Beach with fun things to do and places to eat. Read on for my recommendations for a one day visit to South Florida.
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