ART DECO

Art Deco movement from 1925 - 1940. Manly influenced the architecture of most American cities and had an impact on fashion, art, and furniture, too.

 Chrysler Building Elevator Doors

However the movement was started in France and it was the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs in Paris 1925 which was the most influential of the many exhibitions of the Art Deco movement. Again a short lived movement but one of the biggest influences of it time. 

In the exhibition itself the biggest achievement was the The Hôtel d'un Collectionneur designed by Pierre Patout. The building housed a suite of elegant rooms conceived by the leading French furniture maker Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann.  Using high quality craftsmanship with exotic woods and expensive materials ( Shagreen, enamel, ivory, ebony and mother-of-pearl) in their designs. 

source from getty images

 Pierre Patout designed the pavilion, with a vast oval room, the Grand Salon, as its focal point.

grand salon

American architecture was hugely influenced by the Art Deco movement and the New York's Rockefeller Center and the Chrysler Building are just two examples of this.

deco cubist necklace (tribal but modern)

Art Deco owed something to several of the major art styles of the early 20th century. These formative influences include the geometric forms of Cubism. The machine-style forms of Constructivism and.Futurism, and the unifying approach of Art Nouveau. Its highly intense colours may have stemmed from Fauvism.

cubist deco or deco surrealist style maybe 

Art Deco's smooth lines, geometric shapes, streamlined forms and bright colours, using costly materials like silver, crystal, ivory, jade and lacquer.

notice the green and geometric style

 

Car Design


Notice the streamline geometric design
I also looked at the 25 Stunning Art Deco Cars on a site called complex uk.com

Deco in the home.... All available to buy today but influenced by the movement of the 1920's



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Tiffany Lighting

This pattern was also used in homes

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Available designs today

Fashion
  

 Long, floor-sweeping hemlines

The 'mermaid' silhouette - tight bodice, cinched waist, flared out hem 

Beads and 'fish scale' sequins

Luxurious fabrics - silk, satin, taffeta, chiffon

Fur coats

Fur trimmed gowns

Gold lamme

Geometric, angular designs

 The Russian Ballet really set the way for Art Deco and Fashion.  Russian choreographer Segei Pavlovich Diaghilev felt that the costumes were lacking and had a bland feel to them. He commissioned work to meet his desire for a more  "exotic" look... Under the keen eye and skilled hands of Paul Poiret he introduce these

Graphic Design

This was the Machine Age, and typography began to take on an industrial, futuristic - almost robotic - appearance. The final effect was a streamlined, elegant looking font.

Futura, 1926

Created by Paul Renner

Bifur, 1928

Created by AJM Cassandre

Posters -Art Deco travel prints were by far the most popular advertising materials of the day.

 

Travel transportation was heavily marketed - especially that of trains, ocean liners, planes and cars.

The graphic imagery on Art Deco posters was streamlined and angular - faces and bodies for example, were not very detailed.

Instead human forms took on more of a futuristic look - flat, angular features and elongated, straight-lined bodies.

Marvel comics have prints available to buy that have a definite Art Deco look



Source www.kingandmcgaw.com