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Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs (lit. ' Decorative Arts '), is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.
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Art Deco is a style of decorative art, design and architecture of the 1920s and 1930s in Europe, [1] the United States and other countries. It was named after an international exhibition held in Paris in 1925, [1] but there are some examples dating back to before the First World War. [2]
Art Deco architecture flourished in New York City during the 1920s and 1930s. The style broke with many traditional architectural conventions and was characterized by verticality, ornamentation, and building materials such as plastics, metals, and terra cotta.
Arguably Art Deco – a term coined in the 1960s – isn't one style, but a pastiche of different styles, sources and influences. Art Deco designers borrowed from historic European movements, as well as contemporary Avant Garde art, the Russian ballets, folk art, exotic and ancient cultures, and the urban imagery of the machine age.
Art déco (name derived for extreme synthesis from the words Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes, International Exhibition of modern decorative and industrial...
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