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

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: March 23, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

Watch out - we're about to have an art deco moment. On Thursday a blockbuster exhibition devoted to this exuberant style will open at the V & A for a 16-week run, which means it's time to start peppering your dinner party conversation with dazzlingly informed references to Ruhlmann, streamlining, the Chrysler Building and Eileen Gray.

Born of the zestful energy that erupted after the First World War, the sleek and jazzy world of art deco is inextricably associated with travel. Raiding the style files of ancient history, its designers gleefully lifted exotic motifs and patterns from Egypt, ...

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