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Art Deco - The Paris fair of 1925

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Art Deco - The Paris fair of 1925

The arrival of an art deco style first became evident in Paris in 1925 at the influential world fair, the Exposition Internationale des Arts D'coratifs et Industriels Modernes, which was visited by 16 million people between April and October of that year. With the world in recovery from a shatteringly destructive war, visitors came to witness the very latest in modern art and design - paintings, furnishings, homewares, jewellery, the decorative arts - made in countries as diverse as Austria, Britain, Denmark, Russia and Sweden. The show had a global impact and the style that evolved from it became known as jazz modern, moderne, or zig-zag modern - the term art deco wasn't coined until the 1960s.

During the 1930s, the art deco look progressed in America into streamlining, a no frills, contoured look that took its inspiration from the svelte ocean liners, cars, aeroplanes and zeppelins of the time. Streamlining was applied to all sorts of things, from cigarette lighters with decorative speed whiskers to denote movement, to bakelite radios in bullet shapes, and round silver teapots.

It was very Hollywood.