Editing Streamline Moderne (section)

==Influences and origins==
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As the [[Great Depression]] of the 1930s progressed, Americans saw a new aspect of [[Art Deco]], i.e., streamlining, a concept first conceived by [[industrial design]]ers who stripped Art Deco design of its ornament in favor of the aerodynamic pure-line concept of motion and speed developed from scientific thinking. The cylindrical forms and long horizontal windowing in architecture may also have been influenced by the [[New Objectivity (architecture)|New Objectivity]] artists — a movement connected to the German [[Deutscher Werkbund|Werkbund]] — and by [[Futurist architecture]] of the early 20th century. Examples of this style include the 1923 [[Mossehaus]], the reconstruction of the corner of a Berlin office building in 1923 by [[Erich Mendelsohn]] and [[Richard Neutra]]. The Streamline Moderne was sometimes a reflection of the [[Austerity|austere]] economic times; sharp angles were replaced with simple, aerodynamic curves, and ornament was replaced with smooth [[concrete]] and [[glass]].

The style was the first to incorporate electric light into architectural structure. In the first-class dining room of the [[SS Normandie|SS ''Normandie'']], fitted out 1933–35, twelve tall pillars of [[René Lalique|Lalique]] glass, and 38 columns lit from within illuminated the room. The [[Strand Palace Hotel]] foyer (1930), preserved from demolition by the [[Victoria and Albert Museum]] during 1969, was one of the first uses of internally lit architectural glass, and coincidentally was the first Moderne interior preserved in a [[museum]].