Art Deco Signage in San Francisco

One of the century’s most innovative and popular designs, Art Deco was a style that spread across the globe in the 1920s and 30s and contained the same forward-looking architectural aspirations of the earlier Art Nouveau period (1890s to 1910s).

As time progressed less became more so that the ornamentation that lined the perimeters of signs disappeared from signs in the 50s and 60s.

Today in San Francisco, many of the Art Deco signs remain. I believe the city has the best collection of these signs in the world.