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Art Deco Day in Napier (art deco is a type of architecture and style)

Napier is Art Deco capital of the Southern Hemisphere

Here's a few snaps I took this year (dressing up next year!)

Wikipedia definition of Art Deco: (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_deco)
Art Deco was a popular international design movement from 1925 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design, and industrial design, as well as the visual arts such as fashion, painting, the graphic arts and film. This movement was, in a sense, an amalgam of many different styles and movements of the early 20th century, including Neoclassical, Constructivism, Cubism, Modernism, Bauhaus, Art Nouveau, and Futurism. Its popularity peaked in Europe during the Roaring Twenties and continued strongly in the United States through the 1930s. Although many design movements have political or philosophical roots or intentions, Art Deco was purely decorative. At the time, this style was seen as elegant, functional, and modern.
Napier, New Zealand has an almost entirely art- deco town centre, rebuilt after a devastating earthquake, and mostly left unchanged since then.

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