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Art Deco in Bloomsbury Walking Tour
Event Information
Description
Architecture in the Machine Age
Come explore Bloomsbury’s rich Art Deco heritage, including Charles Holden’s iconic Senate House, the former Daimler Car Hire garage and a reconverted petrol station. From sophisticated glamour to severe functionality, we shall make this architectural style roar again!
The Daimler Garage (1931)
While I don’t want to give away all of the Art Deco secrets of this tour just yet, I can tell you that our route – as an added bonus – will also take us past a controversial Modernist icon, an Art Nouveau-style lodge as well as London’s first pedestrianized shopping street.
Preview
For a small taster of the tour, please check out blog features about the walk on The Londonphile, Randomly London as well as Emm in London.
http://thelondonphile.com/2013/10/22/art-deco-bloomsbury/
http://randomlylondon.com/art-deco-bloomsbury-walking-tour-review/
http://www.emminlondon.com/2013/10/a-fabulous-art-deco-in-bloomsbury-tour.html
Walk Details
Please note that while the map above shows the meeting point for this walk to be just outside of the square, we will actually be starting off this walk inside of Russell Square. You will find me by the fountain in the centre of the square holding up a sign mentioning the name of the walk.
Premiering at the Bloomsbury Festival 2013, this tour is open to the general public as well as locals who want to learn more about the area's architectural history. This walk is fully accessible and dog-friendly too.
Contact Me
If you have any more questions, do not hesitate to get in touch with me either via EventBrite or send me an email directly to: yannick.pucci[at]gmail.com. You can also find me on Twitter (@ypldn) where I am always up for a chat too.
Organizer Yannick Pucci
Organizer of Art Deco in Bloomsbury Walking Tour
Originally from Luxembourg, Yannick Pucci is an independent tour guide specializing in Art Deco walks of London. Constantly inspired afresh by his adopted city and its people past and present, he is an engaging and enthusiastic storyteller, and LastMinute.com has named his walks as some of the ‘best London walking tours’.
Combining his love for architecture and history, Yannick’s ‘Art Deco in London’ tours explore the zeitgeist behind the modern functionality and sophisticated glamour of 1920s and 1930s design. Suitable for all levels of knowledge, this series began with his popular 'Art Deco in Bloomsbury' walk, which made its debut at the Bloomsbury Festival 2013 and has been the subject of a Londonist Out Loud podcast. From the West End to the Victoria and Albert Museum, the cycle of tours now spans eight locations and covers a broad variety of Jazz Age themes.
While Yannick can't exactly pinpoint the origins of his passion for all things Art Deco, he vividly remembers giving a presentation on the works of Tamara de Lempicka in secondary school. Since the launch of his first tour, he has always been seeking out interwar buildings wherever he travels and he has even discovered some striking examples hiding under his nose in Luxembourg. In his spare time, Yannick likes to collect Art Deco ceramics - Clarice Cliff and Shelley are some of his favourites designers - and he can often be found hunting for antique treasures at London's flea markets and car boot sales.
You can find reviews of Yannick's walks on his website London Art Deco Tours. He is available for public and private tours and you can contact Yannick here: yannick.pucci@gmail.com.
