Art Deco Style Coffee Table Book

At the dawn of the twentieth century, the world yearned for a new design style that would embody contemporary culture. Efforts to create a design language suited to the needs and tastes of the modern world took shape during the first decades of thenew century, crystallizing in Paris with the 1925 Exposition International des Arts coratifs et Industriels Modernes. The Art Deco period encompassed a multitude of decorative influences, including the updating of historical styles,the introduction of exotic elements and the adaptation of avant-garde art currents such as the geometric abstraction of Cubism.Not a single style or a unified movement, Art Deco is a design idiom that reflects a decorative approach to designingappealing consumer goods during the interwar period. Encompassing every discipline within the applied arts, Art Deco manifested itself to some extent everywhere around the world, perhaps the first design idiom ever to do so.