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Art Deco owed much of its initial popularity to the great Internation Exhibition of Decorative Arts held in Paris in 1925. But it is a mistake to suppose that it is something typically French, peculiar to the 1920s and 30s, and confined to the minor arts of decoration like jewelry and furniture. None of this is true. The modern decorative art that goes by the name of Art Deco is a much bigger movement, international in scope and reaching back to the...
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By the time of the great Paris Exhibition of 1925, the idea that an interior and its furnishings should form a complete design--a "total look"--dominated the thinking of both designers and their sophisticated clients. ART DECO INTERIORS documents this flourishing of design ingenuity in Europe and America with more than 300 illustrations, 151 in color.
9) Art deco
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Art Deco was a major decorative style of the 1920s - the perfect expression of the extravagance of Paris during that decade. Renowned for its opulence and exclusiveness, Art Deco embraced every area of the decorative arts, including furniture, jewelry, painting and graphics, bookbinding, glass, and ceramics, and was the last coherent decorative style to emerge from Europe during this century. The 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels...
11) Art deco style
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"Art Deco Style is the most comprehensive and wise-ranging study of Art Deco yet to be published. Truly international in scope and covering the whole spectrum of art, design and architecture, this richly illustrated book demonstrates the all-pervasiveness and essential coherence of Art Deco as a style, and reflects the fascination that it continues to exert as a living influence."--Jacket
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This important book contains the most complete range of art deco figures ever published. It is based partly on the original importers catalogues and partly on the wide range of pieces handled by the author Bryan Catley - the leading specialist in the subject. Between the wars an entirely modern style of decorative sculpture emerged which was a complete break with the heavy romantic late nineteenth century schools, and was totally in sympathy with...
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"Art deco flourished in cities and small towns throughout America during the 1920s and 1930s. Extremely popular as a statement of modernity and technological progress, art deco movie palaces, dime stores, department stores, courthouses, and schools were ubiquitous in the American landscape. Many of the best examples of the style continue to be used today as important civic and social spaces." "American art deco was unique. Unlike their European counterparts,...
18) Art Deco Icons
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The astounding career of Erté, one of the most influenctial artists of the twentieth century, has passed another milestone on a road that is as rich in variety as it is long. 1982 marks the artist's ninetieth year of life and his seventieth year of professional success in a phenomenal range of visual arts. After more than half a century of international acclaim as a designer of sets and costumes for productions such as Folies-Bergère, George White's...
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