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Not sure of Africa as have never been, Love Art Deco of which we have an original sideboard and a couple of lamps, one I purchased from France, the other from Ebay. As for trucks if you are talking lorries I have a large collection of Corgi lorries Bedfords, Foden's Diamond T's, Scammell etc. When I worked in a hotel in Norwich in 1969 Peter Pointer of Pointer tankers used to come in on a Saturday night. When in the States I always say to my wife "Big Lorry" and I usually take a photo of it and I also did in Canada as well. I know their trucks aren't exactly climate friendly but I still think they are great. Much better looking than European lorries.
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Anyone like old trucks, Art Deco styling and Africa? on 17:06 - Feb 5 with 361 views
Talk of Africa and Art Deco bring to mind Asmara in Eritrea which I first heard of a couple of weeks ago when listening to the BBC series Great Dictators on Mussolini.
"When the Italians colonized Eritrea between 1890 and 1941, they built around 400 Art Deco and modernist buildings all over the capital city. Asmara was nicknamed “La Piccola Roma” (Little Rome), because of the urban layout and architecture. When WWII began, the Italians left Eritrea, but they left a legacy behind."
"Located at over 2,000 m above sea level, the capital of Eritrea developed from the 1890s onwards as a military outpost for the Italian colonial power. After 1935, Asmara underwent a large scale programme of construction applying the Italian rationalist idiom of the time to governmental edifices, residential and commercial buildings, churches, mosques, synagogues, cinemas, hotels, etc. The property encompasses the area of the city that resulted from various phases of planning between 1893 and 1941, as well as the indigenous unplanned neighbourhoods of Arbate Asmera and Abbashawel. It is an exceptional example of early modernist urbanism at the beginning of the 20th century and its application in an African context."
Sadly, as the documentary series points out, Mussolini's adventures in north Africa were accompanied by great savagery.
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