Streamline moderne

“Streamlining is the first new and uniquely American approach that the public could associate with progress and a better life,” declared Henry Dreyfuss, designer of the famous 20th Century Limited streamlined locomotive that linked Los Angeles and New York in the late 1930s. Architect Walter Sidney Orme’s nod to both Streamline Moderne and Art Deco […]

The neat little streamline moderne dentist office on East 50th Street in south Minneapolis, built circa 1938.

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Havana-modern 20th century architecture and interiors book Rizzoli by Michael Connors.

Streamline Moderne, with an unexpected -e at the end, is a highly influential architectural and industrial design styles of the 1930-1950 period. It has its origins in Art Deco, but goes beyond it by smoothing out Art Deco’s features and

Image 16 of 21 from gallery of Tuynhuys Apartment Building / Robert Silke & Partners. Photograph by David Southwood