ART DECO ARCHITECTURE MODELS

Art Deco arrived in the 1920s as architecture's answer to a changed world — faster, more urban, more industrial, more confident in the possibilities of the machine age. It was a style that crossed borders almost immediately, absorbing the local materials and civic ambitions of wherever it landed, and producing buildings of extraordinary variety within a recognisable shared language of stepped forms, bold geometry, and ornament that celebrated modernity rather than apologising for it.

This collection spans that global reach. In London: Broadcasting House on Portland Place, the Hoover Building on Western Avenue, the Carreras Black Cat Factory in Camden, Arsenal's East Stand at Highbury, and Battersea Power Station on the Thames. In Miami: the Century Hotel and Marlin Hotel on Ocean Drive, two of the finest examples of the Tropical Deco that transformed South Beach in the 1930s. In America: the Empire State Building and News Building in New York, the Cincinnati Union Terminal with its vast entrance dome, and the Greyhound Terminal. In Scotland, the Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen. In Finland, Eliel Saarinen's Helsinki Central Station — one of the great National Romantic buildings, completed in 1914 and a direct precursor to the Deco movement that followed.

Taken together, they offer a survey of the style at its most varied and most assured.

Each model is cast in fine plaster and finished by hand in our West Sussex studio.