Art Deco Napier celebrates in style > New Zealand
Geon Art Deco Weekend - Napier
18 - 20 February, 2011
New Zealand’s Art Deco capital of Napier, in Hawke’s Bay, celebrates its annual festival of origin in style in February with an event calendar that features boas and balls, picnics and parades.
What began as a two-day festival in 1989 has grown to a week-long extravaganza of elegance celebrating an era of sophistication and an all- important time in Napier’s history.
The city was rebuilt from the ruins of a major earthquake in 1931 and has one of the most concentrated arrays of modern Art Deco, stripped classical and Spanish Mission style buildings of any city in the world.
2011 Art Deco festival
The 2011 festival incorporates over 150 events and will attract an expected 45,000 people, including national and international enthusiasts, many of whom make an annual pilgrimage to Napier for the Deco celebration.
They dress in period clothing, drive vintage cars, sip champagne, picnic in great Gatsby style, attend elegant soirees and wander the architecturally distinct streets that make Napier unique in the world.
As well as a vintage car parade, aerobatic flying displays, dinner dance and free outdoor jazz concerts, there will be a Starlight Supper at The Dome - which organizers say will be of special interest to those liking "a little champagne, glitz and glam".
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