Art Deco: France's love affair with the Roaring Twenties 

I'm Irish, i love France, very beautiful country and very bright and creative people, the buildings fall down in the war, they get together and build even better buildings, i love that.

France's architectural and artistic heritage, which is in many respects unparalleled, is unfortunately not matched by a real commitment on the part of national authorities. The highest level of protection, the monument historique, covers only 44,236 buildings. Even these buildings can, under certain circumstances, be demolished as happened recently with several buildings along the Rue de Rivoli formerly part of the Samaritaine complex in Paris. Macron's government has reduced even the equivocal protection the monument historique designation provides by eliminating the veto that France's corps of history architects (ABF) formerly had over the demolition or destructive re-use of these buildings. In Germany, historic protection is devolved to historic preservation offices (Denkmalpflege) in the sixteen states that have, among them, issued historic preservation status to more than a million buildings or monuments. To the extent these buildings survive in France, it's owing much more to the tenacity of owners, activists and occasionally local officials too, rather than legislation or the French Culture Ministry.

Very good. I was mesmerised by that pool complex at the end. A vision of social architecture.

Too bad Warsaw was destroyed in WW2. It apparently had a great representation of the period in art and architecture.

India has a wonderful amount of Art Deco buildings.

que c'est beau....love art deco! and France too!

Love the church floor tiles

My wife and I got to see The Great Gatsby at the Casino on Catalina Island, it is a must-see theatre. Get there early if they have the movie night, they have a pipe organ.

I think that true style ended 1929 and a total collapse came somewhere around 1965

It really a wonder from yesteryear... Love the video ☄

Very nice! Thank you for a fascinating look at the styles of the 1920s

Love art deco

Please use subtitles, it’s very annoying when they talk over other person.

I think the reason I like art deco is because is base on Egyptian art.

Live like you’re Jay Gatsby.

Beautiful..

Cool

SVP, soit vous laissez parler en français et vous mettez des sous-titres en anglais, ou bien vous traduisez en anglais , mais mettez les voix en français à off. Les deux , à intensité quasi égale , c' est la cacophonie. On comprend pas grand-chose.

That Church is beautiful and I Saw my Lord and Savior Jesus! I love you Jesus❤️

Interesting to watch and compare the RU-vid videos of the various European state broadcasters. The French and Russian channels are always talking their own country up; whereas the British (BBC) and German state channels are always talking their own country down.

I'm sorry. But I believe Art Deco was nit introduced until 1929. If I am incorrect please tell me. But I have collected Art Deco my whole adult life. Im pretty sure it was introduced in Paris in 1929.

Wailies