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Art Deco: poster art, graphic design, architecture and objets d’art were all influenced by and a product of this iconic style. From one World War to another, Art Deco was the very visual embodiment of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Both a reaction to and an extension of Art Nouveau, Art Deco was an opulent, sophisticated and glamorous style, which emerged from the austerity and horror of the Great War and complemented the hedonistic excesses of the Roaring Twenties. At the time it was known as Style Moderne, Modernism, Art Moderne, Style Chanel and Jazz Style, but was enduringly christened Art Deco by Bevis Hillier in the late 1960s. This name came from the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs Industriels et Modernes, held in Paris to celebrate the new movements in, especially, French illustration and design. The genesis of Art Deco was both ancient and modern. The ‘primitive’ arts of Africa, Egypt and Aztec Mexico combined with the new technology in building, transport and aerodynamics. Art Deco is not just pictures: the graphic arts we illustrate, but the principles of design apply to architecture, furniture, textiles, fashion and industrial and interior design. Bold and colourful use of sweeping curves, stepped forms, chevron patterns and the sunburst motif are typical of Art Deco pictures and design. The most colourful expression of the style was in the graphic design influenced by Art Deco. Posters, advertising and magazine covers were particularly suitable for the striking Art Deco graphics, especially perhaps when illustrating and advertising other manifestations, such as 1920s Fashion, 1930s Fashion, 1920s Cars and 1930s Cars. Advertising and its media outlets mushroomed to feed the growth of consumerism and so the opportunities for Art Deco graphics increased apace. By the time the Second World War and its austere aftermath put paid to Art Deco, the movement had run out of steam as mass production moved its perception to gaudy rather than stylish. However Art Deco has proved enduringly attractive and adaptable and continually re-emerges in its own right and as a basis for modern design.