Reporting from Napier, New Zealand — At 10:47 a.m. on Feb. 3 ... broke with their colonial tradition and rebuilt the town in Art Deco style, made popular in Europe of the ‘20s.

Flickr Archives New Zealand - Flickr/Creative Commons ... earning it the title of Art Deco Capital of the World. Today, Art Deco still dominates Napier’s skyline. (Even the local McDonald ...

That’s definitely the case in Napier, a coastal city on New Zealand’s North Island ... and the popularity at the time of Art Deco architecture. Today, Napier rivals Miami’s South Beach ...

Florida's Miami Beach, which was heavily promoted as a tourist resort for the wealthy in the 1930s, contains the world's greatest concentration of Art Deco buildings. NAPIER, New Zealand (CNN ...

But in the small city of Napier in the ... influenced decorative theme: Art Deco frequently drew on Egyptian and Mayan imagery; to this, uniquely in New Zealand, Maori flourishes were added.

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Two years after the disaster, the city had been rebuilt in the style that was sweeping the world at the time, particularly in Los Angeles and New ... at the Art Deco Masonic Hotel in Napier.

Reporting from Napier, New Zealand — At 10:47 a.m. on Feb. 3 ... broke with their colonial tradition and rebuilt the town in Art Deco style, made popular in Europe of the ‘20s.

But in the small city of Napier in the Hawke's Bay region of New Zealand's North Island, that is exactly what is … Read more ...