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Art Deco

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Art Deco

Art Deco was an art style from around the 1920s-1930s on Earth. (PROSE: Ship of Fools [+]Loading...["Ship of Fools (novel)"], Bullet Time [+]Loading...["Bullet Time (novel)"])

The Art Deco look of the "Cybusmen" (TV: Rise of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)"], PROSE: Lumic [+]Loading...["Lumic (short story)"])

Iris Wildthyme once had an Art Deco drinks cabinet in the Celestial Omnibus. (PROSE: Enter Wildthyme [+]Loading...["Enter Wildthyme (novel)"])

The room which Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka shared in the Doctor's TARDIS had a mix of Victorian era and Art Deco furnishings. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Visitation [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Visitation (novelisation)"])

When Fitz Kreiner first saw the inside of the Doctor's TARDIS it made him think of a cross between a cathedral, an Art Deco sculpture park and a Victorian drawing room, with bits of car park and library thrown in for good measure. (PROSE: Revolution Man [+]Loading...["Revolution Man (novel)"])

Just before he died Noel Coward was living in an Art Deco-style house, it was decoarted in pastel ice-cream shades. (PROSE: Mad Dogs and Englishmen [+]Loading...["Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)"])

Some railway stations had Art Deco facades, with curving architecture. (PROSE: Warchild [+]Loading...["Warchild (novel)"])

The Crystal Bucephalus had several clashing (according to the Fifth Doctor) including walls in an Art Deco style, bauhaus furnishings, with the gothic splendour of the columns and arches that framed statues. (PROSE: The Crystal Bucephalus [+]Loading...["The Crystal Bucephalus (novel)"])

In Hong Kong in 1997 the Club Shanghai had the interior design of a pastiche of art deco and with a 1930s-style of a Shanghai nightclub. Its entrance had a black marble moon gate which led into a complex filled with panelled screen walls, plus mirrors are etched with sinuous dragons of good fortune. (PROSE: Bullet Time [+]Loading...["Bullet Time (novel)"])

John Lumic suggested that the "Cybusmen" (later Cybermen) developed by the Ultimate Upgrade™ project (PROSE: Lumic [+]Loading...["Lumic (short story)"]) in Pete's World (TV: Doomsday [+]Loading...["Doomsday (TV story)"], etc.) have a "clean, industrial Art Deco look". (PROSE: Lumic [+]Loading...["Lumic (short story)"])

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