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| Also called Style Moderne, Art Deco is a movement in the decorative arts and architecture that originated in the 1920s and developed into a major style in western Europe and the United States during the 1930s. Its name was derived from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, held in Paris in 1925, where the style was first exhibited. Art Deco design represented modernism turned into fashion. Its products included both individually crafted luxury items and mass-produced wares, but, in either case, the intention was to create a sleek and antitraditional elegance that symbolized wealth and sophistication.
The distinguishing features of the style are simple, clean shapes, often with a "streamlined" look; ornament that is geometric or stylized from representational forms; and unusually varied, often expensive materials, which frequently include man-made substances (plastics, especially bakelite; vita-glass; and ferroconcrete) in addition to natural ones (jade, silver, ivory, obsidian, chrome, and rock crystal). Though Art Deco objects were rarely mass-produced, the characteristic features of the style reflected admiration for the modernity of the machine and for the inherent design qualities of machine-made objects (e.g., relative simplicity, planarity, symmetry, and unvaried repetition of elements). Definition courtesy of the Encyclopedia Britannica. |
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| Sconce by Lalique Sassoon House - Shanghai, China |
| Art Deco Furniture: The French Designers
by Alastair Duncan, Alain-Rene Hardy (Paperback) Authentic Art Deco Interiors and Furniture (in Full Color ) by Jean L. Druesedow (Editor) (Paperback) Art Deco House Style: An Architectual and Interior Design Source Book by Ingrid Cranfield (Hardcover) American Art Deco by Alastair Duncan (Paperback) 127 Authentic Art Deco Patterns in Full Color (Dover Pictorial Archive Series) by Aug. H. Thomas, G. Darcy (Paperback) |
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| Ceiling, Ladies Waiting Room Texas & Pacific Building |
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| Chandelier, Texas & Pacific Building - Ft. Worth, TX |
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