Art Deco Designs / Vehicles / Architecture On Stamps

You consider yourself more knowledgeable than the owners and restorers of the Daylight 4449?

No more or less an expert than you are Ellie. Just trying to add some information to a great topic. That is how we learn new things. The distinctions between Deco and Streamlined Moderne are widely accepted with architecture and industrial design disciplines really getting into the weeds on the subject matter. Entirely fine if you want to lump everything into the Deco category. They share many traits and are all beautiful IMO. Deco tends towards flashy and luxe materials and finishes while Streamlined Moderne has strong horizontal lines and emphasizes the industrial. The successor to Streamlined Moderne was Mid-Century Modern which is REALLY popular now with the general population.

AI overview states:

Streamline Moderne is a late phase of the Art Deco architectural style, characterized by its focus on aerodynamic design principles and sleek, curved forms, often with a horizontal emphasis. It emerged in the 1930s, drawing inspiration from the streamlined shapes of airplanes, ships, and automobiles.

I only have a basic knowledge of architecture and design and can tell the difference
between Romanesque, Gothic and Baroque but I had never heard of
Streamline Moderne.
Thanks for the enlightenment.

@lithograving As far as I know, streamline is considered to be art deco. These locomotives are considered to be art deco. I have known about these locomotives for many years, I even drew a lot of them and wrote about them when I was 12 years old. Streamlined vehicles are generally considered art deco (of course, not all vehicles designed with aerodynamics in mind are art deco, but specifically early streamlined locomotives and cars and trucks are considered art deco, such as the famous Labatt's Truck posted in this thread before).

If anybody knows of any stamps featuring the Chrysler Airflow, that is a perfect example of an art deco streamlined vehicle.

Streamlining alone does not account for a vehicle being art deco. The earliest streamlined car that I know of is the Burney Streamline car, and it really was an experiment of functionality rather than style.

1950 is rather late for Art Deco, but this portrayal of King Harald III Hardrada seems to me to fit, with his wavy metallic hair and curvaceous crown. The building he's ignoring is Oslo City Hall, begun in 1931, completed in 1950, and commonly described as functionalist.

@pjr That image with that hair style reminds me a lot of The Lantern Bearers of Helsinki Central Station. The train station itself was not originally considered art deco, but rather "jugendstil", "new style", basically art nouveau, but retrospectively, people consider it an early transitional work of art deco. The hair style of The Lantern Bearer figures is very similar, with the wavy lines, but it was based on a popular hairstyle of "the awakening" movement, which was a scandinavian luthernan movement of the 18th century.

The Free France colonies stamps designed by Edmond Dulac are very much "Paris Exhibition" style. The designs remind me a lot of the film "The Inhuman Woman", which premiered in 1925 at the Paris Exhibition and is commonly considered the first piece of Art Deco cinema.

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