Art deco was an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s. It influenced architecture, interior design, fashion, and other visual arts. Art deco represented elegance, glamour, functionality and modernity through its use of geometric shapes, bright colors, and streamlined forms. It embraced influences from neoclassical, cubist, modernist and other early 20th century styles. Art deco furniture and interior design featured sleek lines, geometric patterns, and experimental materials like metal and glass. Distinctive art deco motifs included chevron patterns, zigzags, sunbursts, and stepped forms.

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Ar. S.H.R.Jawahar Benazir
Assistant Professor
School of Architecture & Interior Design
SRM University
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• Art deco , or deco, is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris
in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s, into the
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World War II era.
• The style influenced all areas of design, including architecture and interior
design, industrial design, fashion and jewelry, as well as the visual arts such
as painting, graphic arts and film.
• The term "art deco" was first used widely in 1926, after an exhibition in Paris,
sub-titled Art Deco, celebrating the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern
Decorative and Industrial Arts that was the culmination of style moderne in
Paris.
• At its best, art deco represented elegance, glamour, functionality and
modernity. Art deco was purely decorative.
• Art deco's linear symmetry was a distinct departure from the flowing
asymmetrical organic curves of its predecessor style art nouveau;
• It embraced influences from many different styles of the early twentieth
century-
including neoclassical, constructivism, cubism, modernism and futurism.

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• The structure of Art Deco is based on mathematical geometric shapes.
• It was widely considered to be an eclectic form of elegant and
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stylish modernism, being influenced by a variety of sources.
• Other popular themes of Art Deco were trapezoidal, zigzagged, geometric,
and jumbled shapes.
• Art Deco is characterized by use of materials such as aluminium, stainless
steel, lacquer, Bakelite, Chrome and inlaid wood.
• The use of stepped forms and geometric curves, chevron patterns,
ziggurat-shapes, fountains, and the sunburst motif are typical of Art
Deco.
• Some of these motifs were ubiquitous – for example, sunburst motifs were
used in such varied contexts as women's shoes, radiator grilles, radio and
clock faces, the auditorium of the Radio City Music Hall, and the spire of
the Chrysler Building.

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Art deco Motifs The art deco spire of
the Chrysler Building ,
New York

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Art Deco light fixture in
the Urban Room at the top of
Terracotta sunburst design above the William Penn Hotel
the front doors of the Eastern
Columbia Building, Los Angeles

6. Art Deco Interiors
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Art Deco Mirrored Bathtub
Art Deco stained Glass Ceiling Pattern

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Interior of Hoover Building - London

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AR T D E C O F U R N I T U R E
• The characteristics of art deco furniture are sleek,
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smooth, streamlined lines, geometrical patterns, and
experimental use of industrial materials such as metals,
plastics, and glass. Art deco furniture is modern and
functional.
• Art deco design is recognizable because of three main
things: distinct geometric shapes, intense, bright colors
that stand out, and a decorative look.
• Art Deco is characterized by a linear, hard edge or angular composition, often
with a vertical emphasis, and highlighted with stylized decoration".
• Also, Art Deco, while being decorative, is very simple, in that it doesn't have
any complicated shapes.
• The Art Deco movement is also characterized by clean lines, streamlining, and
symmetry.
• Art Deco works exhibit abstraction, distortion, & simplification, particularly
geometric shapes & highly intense colors.

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Art Deco Dresser Art Deco Coffee Table
Art Deco Leather Club Chairs Art Deco Chrome Plated
Metal Lounge Chair

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Art Deco Armchair - Ivory Art Deco Stool- Ebony and
inlay and velvet-like stained maple, upholstered
upholstery. in brocaded silk.

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Art Deco Tub chair - with Art Deco Era chair
wooden inlay
Art Deco Sofa - Wood Inlay

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Art Deco Mirrored Lucite & Chrome
Dressing Table Makeup Table
Art Deco Geometric
Mirror

14. Lighting
Art Deco
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