Showing posts with label skyscrapers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label skyscrapers. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

 BEAUTE Magazine Art Deco Style Paris 1929


The exceptional, art deco era Beaute magazine was published in Paris in an oversized format debuting in 1929 and continuing in the large format for the first fifteen issues. Beautifully printed in a variety of gravure tones, it continued with issue sixteen in smaller format until the late 1930s. Beaute is devoted to many aspects of modern popular culture and in particular the body, dance, natural living, physical culture and the art of the music hall. All this was brought together in an impeccably produced package, keenly aware of the stylistic era in which it was created. No indication as to the designers, art directors of this 1930s rarity.




Daring cover for a magazine aimed at wide audience; the second issue.




Folies Bergere dancer Feral Benga.




Physical culture and German gymnastics; photos by Gerhard Riebecke.



Beauty of the skyscraper.




Monsieur Henry's perfectly sculpted body ~ "l'homme plastique".











American dancer Stowitts performed at the Folies Bergere. 
Photographs by Nickolas Muray.


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Thursday, April 18, 2013

CITIES OF THE FUTURE Surreal Fantasy Postcards circa 1900



Cities of the future, l'avenir, die zukunft a European genre unto itself, imagined cites and towns as they would appear circa 2000. These are playfully surreal fantasies, making up for there lack of visionary predictions with complicated collages and photo-montages accomplished by the skilled hands of artists, creative platemakers and printers.







Below is one of the great American examples of a city of the future postcard and surprisingly the only one for New York City that I can ever remember seeing. The image is a mash-up of turn-of-the-century "layer cake" style skyscrapers and a scene out of Fritz Lang's Metropolis