Style combination · Pairs well

Art Deco × Neo-Andean Architecture

Deco's stepped chevrons and luxurious halls are close kin; combine them with chakana crosses for opulent, symmetrical interiors, but keep the fluorescent palette.

From the research on Neo-Andean Architecture (Cholets)

Mix them and make something Art Deco Neo-Andean Architecture

A sample layout drawn from the recipe: shapes from Art Deco, their arrangement from Neo-Andean Architecture, the finish from Neo-Andean Architecture. Not a real work, and not an image of either style.

What each style brings

Each part of the design comes from the style with the stronger say in it, and each style gives at least two.

Art Deco Neo-Andean Architecture (Cholets)

Type from Art Deco: Geometric sans
All caps
Colour from Neo-Andean Architecture: Full polychrome
Fluorescent & neon
Form from Art Deco: Angular & zigzag
Stylised figuration
Composition from Neo-Andean Architecture: Central symmetry
Repetition & rhythm
Surface from Neo-Andean Architecture: Gloss & highlights
Flat

The type

Open fonts standing in for each style’s own type, which is often hand-drawn or commercial.

Display · Art Deco

Soirée

Poiret One, standing in for Bifur (A. M. Cassandre, 1929)

Text · Neo-Andean Architecture

The facades and party halls of El Alto, Bolivia, begun by the Aymara builder-architect Freddy Mamani in 2005 for a new Aymara merchant class. A tall block stacks shops, a salón de eventos, rental flats and the owner's rooftop chalet behind one symmetrical front of Andean crosses, diagonal planes, circles and sweeping curves drawn from Tiwanaku carving, in fluorescent colours taken from awayo cloth and set with reflective tinted glass. Ballrooms add colour gradients, LED lines, chandeliers and stained glass; recent cholets add giant pop-culture figures.

Jost; Neo-Andean Architecture used No lettering tradition of its own is documented; for graphics, draw angular, stepped display capitals from the facade's chakana and diagonal-plane geometry and Heavy geometric sans capitals cut from flat panels, like the facade's own planes, for a salón's name in Aymara or Spanish

The colours

The ground and leading colours come from Neo-Andean Architecture, with a counter-accent from Art Deco. The ink reads on the ground at 4.5:1 or more.

Art Deco Neo-Andean Architecture (Cholets)

#ffd800 ground · 36%
#2f4f4a ink · 14%
#ff8c00 accent · 18%
#c9a227 accent · 14%
#e6007e accent · 10%
#8c1c26 accent · 8%

As CSS

:root {
  --ground: #ffd800;
  --ink: #2f4f4a;
  --accent-1: #ff8c00;
  --accent-2: #c9a227;
  --accent-3: #e6007e;
  --accent-4: #8c1c26;
  --font-display: "Poiret One", sans-serif;
  --font-text: "Jost", sans-serif;
}

Use it with care

Neo-Andean Architecture (Cholets): Neo-Andean architecture is the living work of named Aymara builders, makers and their clients in El Alto, and its chakana, Tiwanaku, Pachamama and awayo motifs carry Aymara identity and ritual meaning. Credit Freddy Mamani and the other makers by name, among them facade sculptors such as Ramiro Sirpa. Do not pass the motifs off as generic 'Inca' decoration, and do not use the look as a joke about kitsch or new money: its owners built it after decades of contempt for Indigenous migrants. 'Cholet' joins chalet with cholo, a word long used as a slur against people of Indigenous origin (though some in Bolivia now reclaim it), and Mamani does not much like the label, so call the style Neo-Andean or new Andean architecture.