Aug 26, 2020 · You can’t walk down a Shanghai street without seeing Art Deco – it’s in front of you, or down a lane, or maybe way up high in a Deco Echo skyscraper. It’s everywhere.

Shanghai Art Deco, an offshoot of Historic Shanghai, celebrates this style that defined modernity and progress in the early 20th century and that remains alive in our city a thousand incarnations, from architecture to graphic design to furniture, films to fashion, art to chandeliers, to objects in the home. We raise awareness of its unique ...

Feb 20, 2015 · Discovering the Lost Chinese Art Deco City Today. Today, Jiangwan lies far enough away from the city center that wandering the wide boulevards, punctuated with the surprise of these grand, Chinese Art Deco buildings, feels like an adventure.

This is an ongoing database of Art Deco buildings in Shanghai. We have only included buildings that we know are still standing today, and we have a list of buildings that we have yet to investigate. Use the search box to find a specific building, or …

Jul 21, 2015 · Some of Shanghai’s best interior Chinese Deco includes the Fairmont Peace Hotel’s Dragon & Phoenix Room, the National YWCA, the Greater Shanghai Plan Mayor’s Building and Library in Jiangwan, the Chinese YMCA, and the (secret) Continental Bank lounge.

Art Deco Hongkou ~ Art Deco beauties across the Waibaidu Bridge. Deco & Dumplings ~ Combine a tour of Shanghai Art Deco with a tour of our famous street food – some of Shanghai’s best street food is along Art Deco streets and alleyways.

Jan 22, 2015 · This Sunday, we’ll explore the Art Deco buildings designed by Alexandre Léonard, one of Shanghai’s most talented architects, and finish up with a special treat: a visit to the penthouse apartment where he lived–and from which he disappeared, without a trace.

Jul 15, 2014 · Welcome to Shanghai Art Deco, a celebration of our city’s signature style and the home of the 2015 World Congress on Art Deco. Shanghai Art Deco was born of the city’s first golden age, in the 1920s & 1930s (we’re living in the second one), when the cosmopolitan citizens of Asia’s most international city took this new western style and ...

Jul 17, 2015 · This Saturday (June 14, 2014) we’ll take a stroll through the Art Deco of Shanghai’s former French Concession. We’ve picked out some of our favorite buildings along the route, to give you a bit of a preview. Join us: 10am, corner of Gao’an & …

Jul 6, 2023 · His creativity was breathtaking and his range was phenomenal: Hudec’s style evolved from the eclectic neo-classicism popular in the early 20 th century to Art Deco and modern buildings. He designed landmarks — Art Deco and otherwise — …