Art Deco (Art Deco / Decorative Art Style)

Art Deco is a design style that originated in the 1920s, combining modernism with luxurious decoration. 🎢🍃It is a bold integration of machine age aesthetics and traditional craftsmanship. This style has influenced architecture, fashion, furniture, visual arts, film, and even the design of transportation vehicles. 🧱 Origin and Development Origin Time: Around the late 1910s to early 1920s. The 1925 Paris "International Exhibition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts" made it popular worldwide. 🎢🍃Peak Period: 1920s–1930s, especially in the United States and France. Decline Time: Gradually replaced by the International Style (such as Modernism) after World War II. ✨ Style Characteristics Art Deco is characterized by luxury, geometry, symmetry, a sense of the future, and the aesthetics of machinery: Geometric shapes (commonly zigzag, radiating, triangular, stepped, and symmetrical structures) 🎢🍃Mixed materials (mirrors, stainless steel, marble, ebony, sharkskin, ivory, glass, aluminum) Decorative elements (sunbursts, flying birds, lightning, flowers, fruit maidens, animal totems) Bold colors (black and gold, red and black, deep blue and silver, or soft pinks and ivory white in the later period) 🎢🍃 Combination of craftsmanship and technology (emphasizing both the delicacy of handcrafting and the linear feel of modern machine manufacturing). #NewYork 🌟🌟🌟