Tell-tale art deco architectural detail on a building in Napier, New Zealand. Tell-tale art deco wave motif on a building in Napier, New Zealand. A Packard Six car sits outside Napier, New Zealand ...

All things Art Deco in Napier, New Zealand. By Karen Leland, Special to the Los Angeles Times . Aug. 30, 2013 12:30 PM PT . Share via Close extra sharing options. ... offers 14 houses for rent.

The Art Deco Trust offers walking tours. The new land proved fertile – Hawke’s Bay has become the fruit bowl of New Zealand, with roads lined with orchards, farms and wineries that make it an ...

The Art Deco Trust (0064 6 835 0022; artdeconapier.com), an independent organisation dedicated to the protection of Napier’s Art Deco heritage, offers a number of tours of the town – by foot ...

Napier, New Zealand has the largest concentration of Art Deco buildings in the world. Jochen Schlenker/robertharding/Corbis Napier is home to the annual Tremains Art Deco Festival, which will be ...

Kerridge House on the Esplanade was built in 1935 for cinema chain magnate Sir Robert Kerridge. Picture by Strike Photography Regarded as one of New Zealand’s finest examples of art deco ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover art, design, culture and people. Perhaps it’s because the Roaring Twenties are back (2020s, that is), but Alessandra ...

Photo by Photo courtesy of the Art Deco Trust Napier’s population was only about 16,000 at the time, but 6,000 people came to the city to help with the reconstruction process.

Homes. Is Art Deco Interior Design Roaring Back Into Style? ... And when she returned to New York—and her apartment—Calderone decided to explore a modern interpretation of the early 20th style.

Reporting from Napier, New Zealand — At 10:47 a.m. on Feb. 3, 1931, an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the Richter scale shook the town of Napier, onNew Zealand’sNorth Island, killing 161 people ...