art deco

Art Deco (/
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), or Deco, is an influential visual arts
 design style which first appeared in France
 in the 1920s, flourishing internationally in the 1930s and 1940s before its popularity waned after World War II
.[1]
 It is an eclectic
 style that combines traditional craft
 motifs
 with Machine Age
imagery and materials. The style is often characterized by rich colors, boldgeometric
 shapes, and lavish ornamentation.
Deco emerged from the Interwar period
 when rapid industrialization was transforming culture. One of its major attributes is an embrace of technology. This distinguishes Deco from the organic
 motifs
 favored by its predecessor Art Nouveau
.
Historian Bevis Hillier
 defined Art Deco as "an assertively modern style [that] ran to symmetry rather than asymmetry, and to the rectilinear rather than the curvilinear; it responded to the demands of the machine and of new material [and] the requirements of mass production".[2]

During its heyday, Art Deco represented luxury, glamour, exuberance, and faith in social and technological progress. (from wiki)