{"id":349,"date":"2007-04-09T17:24:22","date_gmt":"2007-04-09T22:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=365"},"modified":"2007-04-09T17:24:22","modified_gmt":"2007-04-09T22:24:22","slug":"art-deco-detail-from-asheville-music-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2007\/art-deco-detail-from-asheville-music-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Art Deco &#8212; Detail from Asheville Music School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/decoamsbig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-541\" title=\"Art Deco -- Detail from Asheville Music School\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/decoams.jpg\" alt=\"Art Deco -- Detail from Asheville Music School\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asheville has more than its share of Art Deco architecture, a good thing. There are a number of reasons for this. I would guess that the main reason is that the town was blossoming into a popular mountain resort in roughly the same period the Art Deco style was developing. That probably attracted architects like Douglas Ellington to come do their thing, or things.<\/p>\n<p>This pic is from the corner of the Asheville Music School. It&#8217;s right down the street from my house and my kids take guitar lessons there. The building is not that exciting, but these pilasters are definitely handsome. There are a half dozen or so spread across the fa\u00e7ade. The center strip appears to be bronze and terminates at the top with a light fixture. Those blue lights are a nice little surprise in the evening.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asheville has more than its share of Art Deco architecture, a good thing. There are a number of reasons for this. I would guess that the main reason is that the town was blossoming into a popular mountain resort in roughly the same period the Art Deco style was developing. That probably attracted architects like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[10,12],"class_list":["post-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asheville-living","tag-art-deco","tag-asheville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}