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Source Collection
Alan Karchmer collection, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
19_24.C
Description
Kress Store, 9 N. Main Street, Memphis, Tennessee. Built in 1928. Photograph by Alan Karchmer. © Alan Karchmer.
Following the 1925 Exposition des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, the highly ornamental Art Deco or Modernistic Style began to develop in America. Mostly rectangular ornament, used sometimes with geometric curves and the use of polychrome mark this streamlined style. Often dramatically if not formally three-dimensional in massing, these structures carefully balance complementary horizontal and vertical elements.
Date Created
2021
Date
undated
Recommended Citation
"Kress Store, Memphis" (2021). Images. 61.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-karchmera2/61
Keywords
Architecture--Tennessee--Memphis.
