City Archive Building. Horizontals and verticals galore, plus banding:-

Detailing. Frieze and note lettering above door to left:-

Frontage:-

Entrance. The building now seems to be or at least house a museum on the History of Amsterdam:-

In The Netherlands it’s sometimes difficult to tell whether a building is Art Deco or an example of De Stijl, though De Stijl tends to be starker.

Anyway I found some buildings in Amsterdam which I thought were Deco.

Horizontals, verticals, rule of three in windows, canopy, rounded window column:-

The lower windows on this one have been knackered though:-

But its detailing is good. Note the figures in the columns between the lower windows:-

This tall one has lots of verticals and horizontals plus elaborate ironwork round the windows and great detailing on upper level and towards roof:-

Another tall one was the Station Rokin Building:-

Upper Level:-

Lower level:-

Former Bridgegate Chambers, built 1934. Seems to be now known as the Bridge Church. From this end I couldn’t get it all in one shot. Note lozenges in the brickwork above the windows:-

Reverse view. Nice rounded corner:-

The windows on this one look like Critall ones:-

The ones below are hard to see for the trees but seem to have some deco about them:-

This Exhibition is at the Scottish National Gallery, Princes Street, Edinburgh but alas only till 25/2/24. The good lady and I only managed to get to it last week.

One of Hokusai’s views of Mount Fuji: “Sudden shower below the summit” from 36 views of mount Fuji:-

Kasawe Hasul’s Shin Ōhashi Bridge from Twenty Views of Tokyo:-

Concert Hall by Sybil Andrews. I liked the very Art Deco feel of this:-

A Picasso print. It looks like a ‘face’ playing card:-

Toulouse Lautrec’s ‘Jane Avril’. I grew up with Toulouse Lautrec’s prints on my grandparents’ and, later, parents’ walls. I inherited a couple which now hang in my bedroom.

There was a Hockney:-

a Vanessa Bell:-

and I rather liked this John Piper offering:-

If you want to see it you’ll have to be quick. The exhibition is due to end on Sunday.

I wasn’t expecting to find Art Deco in Lossiemouth but then again a lot of 1920s/30s cinemas were newly built and in the deco style.

This is the former Regal Cinema, which opened in 1939. I found it in Queen Street. It’s now a Co-op:-

Frontage. Rule of three in columns to front, nice curved detail near roofline, flagpole. Glazing totally knackered, though:-

Closer view:-

From left:-

You know I like bridges.

This one could be seen from Sueno’s Stone. It’s a pedestrian one across the A 96.

In Forres itself there was this impressive church, St Leonard’s:-

And an Art Deco style shop with great upper glazing and, partial “sunburst” metalwork on the roofline:-

Once The Picture House, now a Carlton Bingo.

The windows above the entrance are Art Deco in style:-

Grantown-on-Spey is a town in the former county of Moray in the Highland region of Scotland.

Its War Memorial is a stone column on a square plinth and sits beside the town square. The names of killed and missing are on bronze plaques on the plinth where can also be found a frieze depicting a kilted soldier. When we visited the memorial was decorated with flags making some of the inscriptions unreadable. (Unobstructed photos can be found here.)

Dedication and names of men from Grantown-on-Spey. (The dedication is highlighted here.)

The next plaque bears names from Abernathy (obscured,) Duthil, Rothiemurchus and Aviemore.

The top named town below (Inverallan) is obscured but Cromdale and Advie are discernible:-

The Royal British Legion building in Grantown has minor Art Deco styling and was also decorated for remembrance (even though it was April.)

Edited (16/1/2/23) to add:-

According to the Scottish Cinemas website this building has been used as a cinema.

In March we dropped into the V&A, Dundee for something to do.

We came across a small exhibition of postcards by Valentine’s, once a Dundee institution.

According to the V&A site this exhibition was supposed to end in January 2023!

I have many Valentine’s postcards in my collection especially those of the 1938 Empire Exhibition.

I had not realised, though, that Valentine’s themselves had constructed for them an Art Deco building on Dundee’s Kingsway, as these two postcards from the V&A Exhibition attest. The building is now long gone:-

Also on display was this postcard of Portobello Bathing Pool:-

Images of Portobello Bathing Pool in its heyday are here.

The Odeon Cinema is the finest but not the only Art Deco building in Harrogate.

The Harrogate Chocolate Factory Café is right beside the Odeon Cinema. Flat roof, rule of three in upper windows, which have retained the air of Critall Windows though obviously replacements:-

Elsewhere there is Primark. It was formerly a Marks & Spencer then a BhS.

Then there is Barclay’s Bank:-

And Boots, which once housed a Woolworths:-