Delaunay, never knew about her Ukrainian connection.

The surviving FLW client.

For your Italian seaside hols: a contrast with Mussolini’s preferred choice of dictator Neo-classicism.

Sally-Jo’s latest door handles. Have ‘em wrapped!

I never tire of these posters and love that green.

The glass in the photo, bottom right 👌🏼 👌🏼 👌🏼 💯

A more restrained modernist streamline in Munich 🇩🇪

I still used to see awnings on London shops in my sixties boyhood: all gone. Perhaps they will make a comeback like brown paper bags 🧵 🪡

Japanese vibes.

The modernist cousin of Art Decoist towers.

Al Hirschfeld would become THE Broadway cartoonist: doing justice here early in his career to a couple of hard-as-nails, pre-Hays Code dames.

With feeling.

Today marks 45 years since the Firestone Factory office building on the Great West Road, Brentford was unceremoniously demolished, before it could be listed the following week. The factory closed the previous year and the site was bought by the conglomerate Trafalgar House

A cautionary tale from Belfast. Read the article.

Soviet sci-fi in a Modernist groove. Shostakovich played his score live for performances in Leningrad (Wiki).

101 Park Avenue, Ruislip 1935 Connell, Ward and Lucas modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/97-101-park-av…

Vase from 1903 by the firm Louis Comfort Tiffany. Flowers were a typical Art nouveau subject; but the execution is so modern.

A much mucked-around paquebot. It’s suffering from lintel problems over the top floor windows. The white oriole looks very sixties with its modern windows. We miss thirties glazing bars/ traverses.