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The Art Deco Trust runs tours (either on foot or in a 1930s car) and offers maps for self-guided walks. The resulting cityscape is so architecturally cohesive that it calls to mind a studio back lot from Golden Age Hollywood, and Napier now boasts one of the highest concentrations of Deco architecture in the world. Unexpected Art Deco Pilgrimages Photo: Greg Balfour Evans/Alamy Stock Photo Napier, New ZealandĪfter a 7.8-magnitude earthquake flattened this North Island seaport in 1931, the town sprang into action, erecting 111 new buildings-many of them designed by Frank Lloyd Wright devotee J.A. Miami Beach may remain the preeminent Deco destination, but this global guide shows just how far the 20th century’s most stylish art and design movement spread-and how much it resonates to this day. Fittingly, there may be no better time to immerse yourself in the sleek, geometric architecture of the original Roaring ’20s, as a slew of Art Deco landmarks have been recently reimagined, restored, and reopened. Travel experts predict that the post-pandemic era will be a time of exuberance and decadence-the Roaring 2020s, if you will.

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