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Article: ART DECO STYLE LURES TODAY'S CONSUMERS.(AT HOME)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- August 28, 1994
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Byline: ROSEMARY SADEZ FRIEDMANN Scripps Howard
Art Deco is a style that swept through the most fashionable circles in the 1920s and 1930s. The name came from a 1925 exhibition in Paris called the ``Exposition des Arts Decoratifs''.
Americans were quite enamored with Parisian art at the time so it was predictable that they took so favorably to the Art Deco style.
More history: Anyone familiar with Diaghilev's Ballet Russe? The prevalent colors in the costumes of the ballet of orange, lime green and mauve were also the characteristic hues used in Art Deco.
From a descriptive point of view, the Art Deco look is luxurious and ...