Art Deco, style of design popular in the 1920s and 1930s. It was used primarily in furniture, jewelry, textiles, and interior decor. Its sleek, streamlined forms connote elegance and sophistication.
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Zigzag patterns and vertical lines create dramatic effect on jazz-age, Art Deco buildings. Here are facts, photos and resources.
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Art Deco in Buffalo, NY
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Art Deco was the first widely popular style in the United States to break with the revivalist tradition (see, for example, Gothic Revival or Greek Revival or Italianate).
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Art deco was a movement in the decorative arts and architecture that originated in the 1910s and developed into a major style in Western Europe and the United States during the 1920s and ...
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Art Deco style was the first widely popular style to break with the early 20th century styles of Revival and Beaux Arts styles. It consciously strove for modernity, simplicity, and streamlined -- typical of the newly emerging Machine Age.
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The 1925 Paris Exhibition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs launched the Art Deco style, which echoed the Machine Age with geometric decorative elements and a vertically oriented design.
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An inter-war style of bold simplified patterns and bright colours, often combining self-consciously up-to-date motifs with others derived from non-European or ‘primitive' art.
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Period from 1925 to about 1935 when designers were influenced by simple geometric patterns.
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Art deco : A popular design of the 1920s and "30s characterized by bold outlines, geometric and zigzag forms.
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[1920 - 1930 A.D.] Decorative arts after the war, geometric, stylized, derived from Art Nouveau, bright colors, sunbursts, Egyptian motifs.
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Art Deco - popular in the 1920s-30s, decorative arts after the war, geometric, stylized, derived from Art Nouveau, bright colors, sunbursts, Egyptian motifs.
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Fashionable in the 1920s and 1930s, this style delights in strong outline, geometry, bold colours, industrial materials and a liking for the exotic. Sources include ancient Egyptian and Aztec architecture.
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Art Deco - Abstracted and geometric, applied Modernist ornamentation, fashionable from 1925 to 1940.
Art Deco
- a style fashionable during the 1920s-30s. The name is said to derive from an exhibition of mainly industrial art held in Paris in 1925.
Among the most notable styles of architecture are Art Deco, a style popular in the 1920's and 1930's characterised by geometrical shapes and stylised natural forms and symmetry; Art Nouveau, ...
ziggurat - a stepped pyramidal form in Art Deco style architecture; loosely based on the ziggurat temples of the Assyrians and Babylonians. A Minneapolis example of a ziggurat roof is the Foshay Tower.
Two sheets of plate glass formed into a sealed hollow block that comes in a variety of sizes and patterns; is used in bathrooms as well as Modern and Art Deco style homes.
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Other Postmodern office towers built during the 1980s aspired to a similar high stylistic profile, recalling the great Art Deco skyscrapers of the 1920s and 1930s or striving for an eccentric flamboyance of their own.
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