WELCOME to BuyArtDecoAntiques.com! Here you will find a lot of stunning art deco antiques online auctions and usually for great deals too. Art deco, also known as art moderne, is a term that is designated to a type of style of design. It originated in French luxury pieces and goods right before World War I. Art deco became ubiquitously and internationally popular during the 1920s and the 1930s. Then it was coined in the 1960s, the name was derived from the Paris Exposition of Decorative Arts in 1925 and that is where the style reached its apex. Art deco is characterized by long, thin forms, curving surfaces, and geometric patterning. The creators and practitioners of the style attempted to describe sleekness, what they thought expressed the machine age. A German film, Metropolis, expresses a lot of that design, as well. The style influenced all aspects of the era's art and architecture, as well as the decorative, graphic, and industrial arts. Works executed in the art deco style range from skyscrapers and ocean liners to toasters, furniture by designers such as France's Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann (1879-1933), and accessories, such as, the very elegant glass works of René Lalique . Since the 60s and 70s the style has underwent a resurgence of popularity. Napier, New Zealand, which was rebuilt after a 1931 earthquake, has the largest unmixed concentration of art deco architecture in the world. Some U.S. monuments that are influenced by art deco style include New York's Rockefeller Center and Chrysler Building , the South Beach section of Miami Beach, Fla., and Fair Park, in Dallas, Tex.
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