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London Transport's Art Deco design - Documentary

London Transport:- David Heathcote explores the best examples of the 1930's Art Deco style in Britain. He visits the dramatic London Transport HQ and takes a trip on the Piccadilly Line. Art Deco was not a single style, but a collection of different and sometimes contradictory styles. In architecture, Art Deco was the successor to (and reaction against) Art Nouveau, a style which flourished in Europe between 1895 and 1900, and coexisted with the Beaux-Arts and neoclassical that were predominant in European and American architecture. In 1905 Eugène Grasset wrote and published Méthode de Composition Ornementale, Éléments Rectilignes, in which he systematically explored the decorative (ornamental) aspects of geometric elements, forms, motifs and their variations, in contrast with (and as a departure from) the undulating Art Nouveau style of Hector Guimard, so popular in Paris a few years earlier. Grasset stressed the principle that various simple geometric shapes like triangles and squares are the basis of all compositional arrangements. The reinforced-concrete buildings of Auguste Perret and Henri Sauvage, and particularly the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, offered a new form of construction and decoration which was copied worldwide. From a BBC series featuring the best of British Art Deco, screened about 15 years ago. With full credit to the BBC and the producers of this informative and well made documentary. Broadcast on BBC 4 c.2009 'Finestripe Productions' Apologies for any copyright issues, this video is not uploaded for profit or personal gain.