Art Deco

On Wednesday evening, the Flatiron Lounge, which has an Art Deco theme, looked like a speakeasy open to the sidewalk. The Vamp isn t on the menu yet you have to ask for it—a kind of Sam s sister sent me knock on the door. 

Yes, English Heritage have just taken it over, Lionel says. It should be very fine when they ve finished. All that Art Deco, and... 

Introduced during Ihe art deco period (ID20s- 1930s). glass blocks for structural and decorative purposes were quite popular. Interest faded, but has returned within the last lew years. 

In Asia, in the fifteenth century, it was used to cover trunks and cofiftis. Three hundred years later in Europe it was occasioDally used as an inlay or veneer for luxury items. Later, in the art deco movement (the decorative style of the 1920s and 1930s), it became veiy popular and was used to decorate all manner of objects, fiom jewelleiy to ftunituie. 

Drive, too, where rows of art-deco hotels and first-floor restaurants run up and down the South Beach catwalk. The liberal, international crowd has driven most eateries to place a vegetarian section on their menu. Check the boards outside and head into any place that strikes your fancy. For upscale Asian, try Pacific Time (915 Lincoln Rd., a 305-534-5979), is also just a few blocks of the beach. 

University Circle is the well-planned center of the arts for Cleveland. A cluster of museums, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the US history buildings of the Western Reserve Historical Society, and the Museum of Medical History line the circle. The highly acclaimed Cleveland Orchestra plays in the art-deco interior of Severence Hall when they re not touring. 

In some cases, a first point of reference for the material composition of historic plastic articles is the time of their production. Objects in Art Nouveau style, for instance, mostly date back to the years before World War I while items showing the German Jugendstil or Art Deco may be identified by their constituent materials that were typically traded at the time. Details of the actual time of their invention or technical introduction may be looked up, for example, in tables showing the history of plastics or in the pertinent literature. 

The theoreticians let Teller s bomb distract them. It was new, important and spectacular and they were men with a compulsion to know. The theory of the fission bomb was well taken care of by Berber and two of his young people, Bethe explains. They seemed to have it well under control so we felt we didn t need to do much. The essentials of fast-neutron fission were firm—it needed experiment more than theory. The senior men turned their collective brilliance to fusion. They had not yet bothered to name generic bombs of uranium and plutonium. But from the pre-anthropic darkness where ideas abide in nonexistence until minds imagine them into the light, the new bomb emerged already chased with the technocratic euphemism of art deco slang the Super, they named it. 

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