Art Deco Automobiles

Art Deco Automobiles

Art Deco Automobiles

Art Deco Automobiles

By: Admin | Date: November 11, 2011 | Categories:

Swedish architecture was the fulcrum of Scandinavian developments in the 1920s and 1930s. In the 1920s Scandinavian architecture reflected the growing design interests in France and other countries in Europe that became later known as ‘Art Deco’. Scandinavian Art Deco blended these European forms with national identities.

The City Hall Stockholm Sweden

The City Hall in Stockholm, capital city of Sweden, is regarded as a fine example of Scandinavian Art Deco. With the site of the City Hall in Stockholm on the waterfront, the gravitas of the building is hard for visitors to Sweden to ignore.

Ragnar Östberg made the first drawings for the City Hall on Stockholm’s waterfront in 1909. It is known that there was a series of changes up to the completion of Stockholm City Hall in 1923. The exterior architecture includes a 314-foot tower topped with three golden crowns, shown in the photographs below. These three crowns have become one of the major symbols of Sweden and Swedish national identity.


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