As you may know, over the month of April I took part in the A-Z Blogging Challenge, which meant writing a blogpost for each letter of the alphabet in order. I did this challenge last year, too, and focussed on anything Loughborough related that I hadn’t already written about in 'A-Z of Loughborough' (which is a book of snippets about Loughborough in alphabetical order, not a map!!).
This year, as it is the centenary of the exhibition in Paris from which the Art Deco style took its name, I challenged myself to blog about Loughborough’s Art Deco buildings. For most of these alphabetical posts the decision on what to write about was quite easy, although in some cases there were so many choices it was sometimes difficult to focus on just one! In other cases, I admit I did have to stretch the bounds a bit, so, for example, for Letter X we ended up with an eXercise book!
In case you
missed any of the posts, here’s a complete list of them, which should make them
easy to find. They are also included on the page with the complete list of blogposts, which now runs to over 630. Quite some time ago, I also created an
Art Deco Glossary, again with a focus on Loughborough, although this is still a
work in progress!
- A
is for Art Deco
- B
is for Barley Twist
- C
is for Crittall Windows and Chevrons
- Christie
Connections – Paul Pry
- D
is for Diamonds
- E
is for Egyptomania
- F
is for Fascines, Fans, and Feathers
- G
is for Glazed Tiles
- H
is for Hathern Station Brick and Terra Cotta Com...
- I
is for Industrial Art Deco Buildings
- J
is for Jazz
- K
is for Keystone
- L
is for Lions
- M
is for Motifs
- N
is for Nymphaea Lotus, and Nymphaea Caerulea
- O
is for Odeon - again!
- P
is for Pantiles
- Q
is for Queen's Park
- R
is for Roses
- S
is for Shells and Swags
- T
is for Tutankhamun and Torches
- The
Generous Briton
- U
is for Utilitarian
- V
is for Vita Glass
- W
is for Waves Wheatsheaves and Weedon the Architects
- X
is for eXercise Book!
- Y
is for Young Pilsbury and Young
- Z
is for Ziggurat
Thank you for
joining me in my alphabetical journey around Loughborough’s Art Deco!
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typos which are all mine!
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