What is the difference between Art Deco and International Moderne?

IdleRich

IdleRich
Incidentally I really like this building in our little town - incongruous in a way although there are quite a few touches of this stuff every now and then in Portugal. The door of our block of flats kinda nods to it too in fact.
Come to think of it, on Avenida de Liberdade (which is kinda like Lisbon's Oxford St and Pall Mall in one) there is a huge art deco building which used to be a cinema and was converted to a hotel (and maybe flats too, I'm not sure). You can go and drink at the bar on the top floor and you get an amazing view of the city, it's a bit pricey but people pay 15 euros or something to go up in that lift and see the same view so it's a better deal than that.

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IdleRich

IdleRich
I think that style is associated with the dictatorship here - or one era of it - although I'm fairly sure that building I photographed above is not that old.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
Actually, if anyone but me is interested in Portuguese art deco there are two buildings I should have remembered in Porto. We dj-d in Passos Manuel which is in a building called Coliseu which is quite something and right opposite a building called Garagem which is now some kind of bar/restaurant I think.

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I remember we stood on those steps above smoking cigarettes every half hour and looked across the road at the building below.

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Fascinating to me that there is so much of this here but that I never really noticed it at first - certainly it wasn't the view of Portuguese architecture that I had in my head.
 

IdleRich

IdleRich
I never knew that Santa Apolonia had this stunning hotel and restaurant hidden a few metres away from the entrance hall. Dunno what the food is like but when I get an excuse might treat myself to dinner here if only to be safe in the knowledge that if I get murdered Poirot will surely solve the crime.

Whole thing is hidden in plain sight behind this glass

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The foyer

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Mad corridors of rooms (repeated in blue on the floor above)

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The restaurant

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IdleRich

IdleRich
According to the website the rooms look like this

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I've always thought that hotels have a certain magic allure to them (possibly because of how infrequently I get to stay in one), and I also think pretty much the same about railway stations - particularly ones that take you to Madrid rather than Staines - so putting a hotel in a railway station is a guaranteed winner for me.
 
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