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ART DECO

Art Deco

Represents a progression from the outdated art Nouveau

An action made by French designers to maintain leadership in taste and design

“Art Deco” name derived from the name of the exhibition

“Paris exposition internationale des Arts Decoratifs”

Work displayed in the exhibition showed an effort to modernize French interior design,

in which unusually architecture took second place and interior design provided the focus

Effected all of the fine and applied arts as well; Furniture, sculpture, clothing, jewelry and graphic.

Art Deco represented luxury, glamour, exuberance, and faith in social and technological progress.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cdeschamps/397226580/

Characteristics of Art Deco:

Classical inspiration

The use of smooth surfaces

Love of the exotic, sumptuous materials

Repeated symmetrical geometric motifs

Art deco’s linear symmetry was a distinct departure from the flowing asymmetrical organic curves of art nouveau

Dynamic patterns used in Art Deco included:

Sunburst derived from ancient Egyptian art, A mark

for the Art Deco style is the

Lighting bolts

Zigzags

Triangles

Art Deco materials and finishes:

Aluminum

Shiny metals; stainless steel and chrome

Plastic

Mirrors

Glass walls

Art Deco favored intense, bold and contrasts in colors compared to pastel colors of Art Nouveau or black and white in modern styles

Past French inspired art deco

Example of the first project of art Deco; Andre Groult

Andre Groult

Bomb-shaped chest of drawers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Andr%C3%A9_Groult,_cassettone_antropomorphe,_parigi,_1925_ca..JPG

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Past French inspired art deco

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Sunburst motif

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Sunburst motif

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4ankCCRJiUc/S8_h8kQc5kI/AAAAAAAACBw/YBfu8ngPoHQ/s1600/DSC_3980.JPG

Zigzag & Triangles patterns

http://www.flickr.com/photos/73416633@N00/263247336/

http://www.google.com.sa/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=i1ZSxfM-SmdhyM&tbnid=J2Rovx86OuNrAM:&ved=0CAgQjRwwAA&url=http://fabolousse7entd1.wordpress.com/2008/03/13/gambar-dari-kaya-karya-art-deco/&ei=9Wo9UZTlHNP07Abr0YDAAQ&psig=AFQjCNEoels1C1rVhhN_SPrjde2dQocTVA&ust=1363065973500885

http://www.flickr.com/photos/belowred/511304338/

Zigzag & Triangles patterns

http://www.google.com.sa/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=abKkIyAqq41HNM&tbnid=Vtn3cumBeuIzyM:&ved=0CAgQjRwwAA&url=http://laplaces.blogspot.com/2009/07/downtown-art-deco.html&ei=3mo9UZ6GMYnC7AbBx4DoDg&psig=AFQjCNHY-CdEa4WXscMWo_WRkAD4KDKzug&ust=1363065950834279

Art deco lighting

Art Deco glass work

http://www.google.com.sa/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=art+deco+windows&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=RrrRLRrVHPCQsM&tbnid=mQLqsCETC5BYMM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http://realdoorsmelbourne.com.au/products.html&ei=KWw9Uf3XD86o0wXy6oCABA&psig=AFQjCNFku2UEmp8c9GQrNpnDJEzB71ag9A&ust=1363065969887534

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wyliepoon/1572747703/

http://www.google.com.sa/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=art+deco+windows&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=RrrRLRrVHPCQsM&tbnid=mQLqsCETC5BYMM:&ved=0CAUQjRw&url=http://milwaukeemillwork.com/jeldwen_iwp_contemporary.php&ei=NGw9UYPeAaG40QX6uICwBw&psig=AFQjCNFku2UEmp8c9GQrNpnDJEzB71ag9A&ust=1363065969887534

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Art Deco glass work

http://www.google.com.sa/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=rnvpvw0LrEfniM&tbnid=p-wErjtK4a54pM:&ved=0CAgQjRwwAA&url=http://www.buffaloah.com/a/archsty/deco/index.html&ei=-Wo9UZy-N8i47AaTiYHICQ&psig=AFQjCNHak_lYoP10cI7cZoVRaY2wUyfFbg&ust=1363065977935040

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Art Deco Furniture

http://www.modernism.com/prod_one.cfm?id=1705

http://www.icollector.com/Art-Deco-Sofa-with-2-lounge-chairs-France-Paris-circa-1920-30_i8505143

http://milordantiques.1stdibs.com/store/furniture_item_detail.php?id=469532

http://fineart.ha.com/common/view_item.php?Sale_No=5014&Lot_No=73074

Art deco in Britain

Was slow to influence British design ,

After the IWW a movement of revival

Art Deco in America

Represented modern life of America

Hollywood, cinema, skyscrapers, banks and wealth

Influenced the Streamline American Moderne

Chrysler Building, New York

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Empire state building , New York

http://instagr.am/p/V0R_JFkzOn/

http://www.google.com.sa/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=kkqwclbN1HKhhM&tbnid=GaDrGbBy4HajvM:&ved=0CAgQjRwwAA&url=https://wayofwar.org/showthread.php/38501-Ulubione-budynki&ei=tGk9UdX9L-ae7AaGj4GIDA&psig=AFQjCNEN0vN9zZUNc7HzD8blTepujdO1MA&ust=1363065652832132

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End of Art Deco

Even during the great depression in1929, Art Deco

managed to survive for the use and mix of more

affordable materials

The WWII on 1939 marked the end of art deco

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