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Miami Time Machine |
| Section: THE ARTS / ARCHITECTURE |
| Author: Skip Kaltenheuser |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 6/1/1991 |
| Size: 1,270 Words, 7,923 Characters |
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It is one of those peculiar places that doesn't seem like it belongs in America, yet on reflection could probably exist nowhere else. The Art Deco Historic District in Miami can trace European antecedents back to the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, but refraction through the American prism projects images that outline a national psyche. It carries the flavor of a film noir that some prankster splashed with color, or the stage sets for a revival of Cole Porter's Anything Goes. It's the land of Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis on the run with Marilyn Monroe's all-girl band.
Echoes of the area resonate at the Clay Hotel on Washington Avenue. It includes an international hostel to which a steady stream of backpackers from around the world m...
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... cubist shapes.
Everywhere there is an attempt to fuse the past with the present, to revitalize memory. The Mediterranean architecture, gaslight streetlamps, elaborate grillwork, and striped awnings of Espanola Way--founded in 1922 as an artists' hangout and designed mainly by Robert Taylor in 1925, again attracts artists and merchants who are quick to sense the illusion of time travel.
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