re: "America should have been art deco"

Being a woodworker who likes and restores old iron Delta had some interesting art deco styling for quite a few years. I love the stuff but it is all relatively small equipment so I don't have any except a 28-350 20" bandsaw with some leftover art deco lines. Almost all WWing machines built now are purely industrial designs. A couple of pictures of the small 6 and 8" jointer bases which are some the best example:








It is a shame that so many things in our lives have zero thought put into the aesthetics.