Talk:Streamline Moderne

There are a lot of pubs in this style in the Sydney CBD and adjacent suburbs. (And also in many other Australian cities, but there are scores of 'em in Sydney.) Might try to get some photos next time I visit the place, unless someone there does it sooner. -- 202.63.39.58 (talk) 01:19, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

The page is lacking in representation from outside the US-UK, so anything of the sort would be helpful, IMHO! Morgan Riley (talk) 00:45, 28 March 2011 (UTC)

As an airplane it looks strange to talk about a "streamline moderne" style applied to a flying vehicle. The Lockheed Vega, as much as their contemporary planes, incorporated a significant invention in aviation, it was the NACA Cowling, intended to reduce in great levels the radial engine aerodynamic drag, so it is not exclusive of Lockheed Vega.

Furthermore, in industrial design products sometimes streamlining is cited as aesthetically inspiration from a flying vehicle. Because an airplane is "designed" for fly, it shape doesn't correspond to an art style because its pure functional but, as streamline moderne objects, it means that many of it details would be "aerodinamic" (off course!).

Maybe the Lockheed Vega is cited because someone thought that as an airplane "designed by" or "made famous by" is enough to put it in list but, it means that all (more than 40) Kelly Johnson's airplane designs for Lockheed, including the faster ever made (SR71) correspond to streamline because they had streamlined lines intended for improved airflow performance... --131.175.28.132 (talk) 15:14, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

Although actually 80s-era reconstructions, I would say that much of Disney's Hollywood Studios is at least an homage to this style. PurpleChez (talk) 16:09, 6 December 2016 (UTC)

Here is a gallery that I removed the planes from:

Streamlining became a widespread design practice for aircraft, railroad locomotives, and ships.

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  Boeing 247 airliner (1933)
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  Douglas DC-3 airliner (1935)
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  Lockheed Constellation airliner (1943)
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  MV Kalakala, the first streamlined ferry boat (1935)
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  Hamburg Flyer (1932)
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  Diesel III, the Netherlands (1934)
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  DRG Class 05 (1935), world speed record for steam locomotives in 1936
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  Mercury locomotive designed by Henry Dreyfuss (1936)
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  Duchess of Hamilton locomotive (1938)
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  Chicago PCC car
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  1936 M 290.0 Slovenská Strela speed train, Czechoslovakia. Slovenská strela was manufactured by Tatra Kopřivnice in Moravia in 1936 for Czechoslovak State Railways.

Per the IP in 2013 a couple sections above, this really doesn't seem like an example of artistic design; they had to be streamlined or they wouldn't fly. Obviously there's some interplay between these planes and the "streamlined" design of other products, but I think it goes in the other direction (product design being inspired by airplane-like shapes). jp×g 02:02, 17 July 2023 (UTC)

I noticed the main article repeatedly refers to Streamline Moderne as though it was a style/aspect of Art Deco. Whether it's treating Streamline Moderne as a substyle of Art Deco, or treating Art Deco like a catchall term for older aesthetics, isn't this inaccurate regardless? The two styles are undeniably related to a degree, but I think it'd be more accurate to treat Streamline Moderne as a response to Art Deco, rather than a substyle of it due to the opposing aesthetics the two have. Plus, the section claiming Streamline Moderne evolved from Art Deco is unsourced, and is phrased as though Art Deco just refers to any sort of architectural aesthetic. But, I may simply be placing too much value on inconsequential phrasing, what do you all think? Though, if it's using Art Deco as a catchall, that's just outright incorrect usage of the term. 135.131.182.182 (talk) 23:15, 17 April 2025 (UTC)