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Art deco's devotees keep style alive.(LIFE - HOME)
; ...more modern styles. By modern, she means art deco, a design style from the early 20th century...optimism. Ms. Young, 32, was drawn to art deco's clean design, strong angles and balance...t alone. Ms. Young is a member of the Art Deco Society of Washington, a group that supports... Read more
Art Deco.(Features)
; ...terraces have been popular for years, art deco homes are in vogue once more. During the past few years, many art deco-style hotels have been cropping up all...are being constructed in the style of art deco. Today fans of the period spend much... Read more
High Demand, Scarce Quantity Drive the Market for Art Deco.
; ...galleries and collectors are turning to Art Deco for its sleek, futuristic styles Gallery...and other objects d'art, that future is Art Deco. In the late 1990s, trends turned toward...homeowners looking to decorate turned towards Art Deco. Its sleek, futuristic styles and strong... Read more
Art Deco: A Renewed Clamor for Glamour
; ...design movement of modern times is back. Art deco, which flourished during the 1920s and...the game's creation at the height of the art deco movement. "It was one of the most significant...parent company for Parker Bros.' Monopoly. "Art deco was everywhere. It really permeated ... Read more
Enough high-minded art! Just give us a sunburst. The first Art Deco show in 30 years looks at an era when even a meat slicer could be art - or at least pretty.(FEATURES)(ARTS & LEISURE)
; ...The Christian Science Monitor LONDON -- Art Deco was the sort of style that gives eclecticism...the thesis behind a major exhibition, Art Deco 1910 - 1939, which arrives this fall in...style of the 1920s and 1930s. It presents Art Deco as stylistically so inclusive in its choice... Read more
Living in the art of our city; Art deco, the signature of prewar style, will be celebrated at a huge exhibition in London.But did you know Liverpool is arguably Britain's finest art deco city and the style is ideal for modern homes? Peter Elson reports.(Features)
; ...Elson ITONLY lastedacouple of decades,but art deco - the between-the-wars style reaction...With the V&A's major international art deco retrospective exhibition opening later...blocks, too, are well-suited showcases for art deco pieces, with trendy Liverpool furniture... Read more
A zigzag path to perfection Art deco can trace its roots to Paris which, as Miles Sackville reports, is renewing its original passion for the style
; Watch out - we're about to have an art deco moment. On Thursday a blockbuster exhibition...World War, the sleek and jazzy world of art deco is inextricably associated with travel...art nouveau, so moody and tubercular, art deco was fast and fun, its chevrons, ziggurats... Read more
TREASURES IN YOUR ATTICLIVING ROOM SUITE FITS 'ART DECO' DESIGNATION
; ...the set's current value? A. The term "Art Deco" is one of the most misused terms in the...of the items that are lumped into the "Art Deco" category do not belong there, but the...question can safely and correctly be called "Art Deco." It is important to understand that the... Read more
DECO-RATIVE.(art deco styles re-emerging)(Brief Article)
; ...architecture, furnishings and fabrics -- is Art Deco, the sleekly elegant mode established...look. Nearly half of them will be have an Art Deco design, with streamlined curves, chrome...Affiliated Holdings, the center's developer, of Art Deco architecture is just part of the ... Read more
OPEN EYE: `Still shocking, still exotic' More than a new fashion, Art Deco was an emphatic rejection of the values of the past.
; ...it was, and remains, the art of dreams. Art Deco is the eclectic visual embodiment of the...its main 20th-century rival, modernism, Art Deco has received relatively little attention...by the first TV documentary to explore Art Deco as a global phenomenon. Deco: The Art... Read more

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Académie de l'Art Moderne
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Art moderne, L'
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