Art Deco.- The Art Deco district of Miami Beach comprises 23 blocks in the southern part of the city.
It is a series of hundreds of buildings built under the influence of the Art Deco movement born in Paris.
If you go along Ocean Drive, Collins and Lincoln Avenues, you will see many of them.
These buildings were built between 1920 and 1940. They are characterized mainly by their basic geometric figures such as circles, cubes and prolonged lines.
The buildings are ornamentally loaded of little functional elements that fulfill the usage to adorn.
They also have a large number of sconces attached to walls and ceilings, creating decorative relieves.
Another main feature is the neon signs placed outside of the buildings.
From the 1930s, after the well-known Great Depression of the United States, the Americans looked for elements that returned the optimism to population and it was precisely in the Art Deco where they supported themselves to re-impel the economy of the South of Florida.
In this way, many of the residential buildings were converted into hotels in order to boost tourism. Nowadays, they provide the same service.
If you want to fully enjoy this unique artistic expression, we recommend staying in one of these hotels. Besides, you can take awesome photographs.
To experience the entire district you have a 90 minutes tour organized by the Miami Design Preservation center.
We leave you a list with the most emblematic buildings so you don’t miss the most important stuff:
- Cadillac Hotel
- Astor Hotel
- The Webster
- Colony Theatre
- The Carlyle
- Jerry’s Famous Deli
- The Breakwater
- The Mc Alpin
- The Plymouth
- The Delano
- Bass Museum
- Victor Hotel
