Napier 'the Art Deco City' is "a small New Zealand town that seems sometimes fictional" and its uniqueness is the reason why you must visit Napier on New Zealand's North Island.
Far from the world's great population centres and from the European and American cities where 20th Century design evolved lies a small city that is unique. Nowhere else can you see such a variety of buildings in the styles of the 1930s - Stripped Classical, Spanish Mission, and above all Art Deco, the style of the 20th Century - in such a concentrated area.
And Napier's Art Deco is unique, with Maori motifs and the buildings of Louis Hay, admirer of the great Frank Lloyd Wright... a definite must for the North Island!