Tag: art deco weekend

Moon Over Miami Ball

Read Time: 4 mins Every year from 1978 through the 1990’s, there was a black-tie bash in Miami Beach benefiting the Miami Design Preservation League, called the “Moon Over Miami Ball”. This very anticipated party would

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1988 Art Deco Festival

Read Time: < 1 min Being that last weekend was our virtual Art Deco Weekend, we wanted to bring you a flashback to a year when the festival was also not able to be held

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The Rebirth of the Cardozo Hotel

Read Time: 6 mins In the seventies, the porch at the Cardozo Hotel at 1300 Ocean Drive had no more than a row of aluminum chairs, with equal numbers of  senior citizens who lived in

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Guest Post: How to Dress Art Deco

Read Time: 6 mins by Barbara Pickell About the Author: Barbara Pickell received her BA and MBA degrees from Binghamton University in New York State.  She worked in healthcare management and sales for over

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A Woman With Her Own Design

Read Time: 3 mins Barbara Baer Capitman was always an art and design lover. Perhaps she inherited this passion from her mother, Mrs. Myrtle Baer, who was an artist in her own right in the 1950’s.

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1983 Art Deco Weekend Poster

Read Time: 2 mins …depicting nude on blue background with palm leaves. Created by Woody Vondracek who stated, “A last minute decision by the Miami Beach Junior Chamber of Commerce killed this design as

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