Facts about Art Deco Style
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Streamline Moderne, a later phase of Art Deco style, incorporated aerodynamic curves inspired by aviation and industrial design into everyday objects and buildings.
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Hollywood cinema of the 1930s embraced Art Deco style extensively, with lavish set designs in films featuring gleaming surfaces, stepped forms, and stylized luxury.
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Art Deco style influenced graphic design, fashion, and furniture as well as architecture, reflecting a broad modernist embrace of industrial materials like chrome and bakelite.
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Paris hosted the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, the exhibition that gave Art Deco style its name.
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The Chrysler Building in New York City, completed in 1930, is widely regarded as one of the finest examples of Art Deco style architecture.
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Emerging in the 1920s, Art Deco style is characterized by bold geometric forms, rich colors, and lavish ornamentation influenced by Cubism and ancient Egyptian motifs.