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Art Deco
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2024 October 7
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vertical Chrysler Building 1 (4684845155).jpg Examples of Art Deco: the Chrysler Building in New York City, New York, U.S.A., designed by the American architect William Van Alen and completed in 1930 … Art Deco dressing table (1919-20).jpg … and an Art Deco chair and dressing table (1919) by the French designer Paul Follot.n n1 From the collection of the Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris (Museum of Modern Art of Paris), France.
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Borrowed from en fr Art déco, first used in the catalogue of an exhibition at the Musée des Arts Decoratifs in Paris, France, in 1966. fr Art déco is a fr arts décoratifs decorative arts 1 1 (from the name of an exhibition called L’Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (The International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts) held in Paris in 1925), from fr arts (plural of fr art art) + fr décoratifs (plural of fr décoratif decorative).n 5569037187 September 2024 1; art deco n
Pronunciation
en /ˌɑːɹt ˈdɛkəʊ/ RP
en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Art Deco.wav Southern England
en /ˌɑɹt ˈdɛkoʊ/ GA
en En-us-Art Deco.oga GA
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en Art De co
Proper noun
Art Deco
en architecture art also attributive A style of decorative art (often used in household objects) and architecture originating in the 1920s and 1930s, characterized by bold geometric forms, strong contrasting colours, and simple composition. from 1966
en Deco
26 July 1978 Paula Judge Saleroom: Jane Austen Ms manuscript sold for £38,000 27,620 5 https://archive.org/details/FinancialTimes1978UKEnglish/Jul%2026%201978%252C%20Financial%20Times%252C%20%252327620%252C%20UK%20(en)/page/n4/mode/1up 8 A pair of Armada flagons were bought for £1,900 and a four-piece Art Deco tea set on a matching tray was sold at £1,500.
en 1989 Introduction National Register of Historic Places 1966–1988 Washington, D.C. National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers; National Park Service; Nashville, Tenn.: American Association for State and Local History ix https://archive.org/details/nationalregister0000unse/page/n10/mode/1up 1 978-0-942063-03-5 These properties reflect the wide variety of resources that represent the American heritage. They include skyscrapers in Chicago and mining structures in Alaska; prehistoric petroglyphs in Nevada and World War II fortifications in Guam; a district of art deco buildings in Miami and a district of prominent artists' and writers' homes in Santa Fe.
en 1995 Rosanna Cirigliano Los Angeles California Florence Casa Editrice Bonechi; San Francisco, Calif.: Smith Novelty Company 119 https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=rmAY3cqpOEgC&pg=PA119 978-0-938765-30-1 Always in the same district, at 61 Olive Street, is the Oviatt Building, one of the most important examples of Art Deco architecture found within Los Angeles city limits, and once a prestigious clothing shop boasting such clients as Rudolph Valentino and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. The store was replaced by today's Rex II Restaurant, decorated as ana 1920s ocean liner in keeping with the overall Art Deco decor.
en 15 December 2021 Robin Leleux Awards Honour the Best Restoration Projects: The Great Western Railway Craft Skills Award: Victoria Arcade Rail Peterborough, Cambridgeshire Bauer Media 946 59 0953-4563 999467860 This project has stripped away modern PVCu and aluminium shop fronts to reveal original or 1930s Art Deco work, with judicious repairs and replacements as necessary, plus stonework repairs and the restoration of traditional London Transport signage.
Alternative forms
en art deco Art Déco
Derived terms
en Deco
en decopunk
Translations
style of decorative art and architecture
Afrikaans: af Art Deco
Arabic: ar فن زخرفي m
Egyptian Arabic: arz ارت ديكو m
Armenian: hy արտ-դեկո, hy ար-դեկո
Asturian: ast Art Decó ?
Azerbaijani: az Ar-deko
Basque: eu Art Déco ?
Belarusian: be Ар-дэко
Bengali: bn আর দেকো
Bulgarian: bg А́ртдеко́
Catalan: ca art déco m
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 裝飾藝術, cmn 裝飾派藝術
Czech: cs Art deco ?
Danish: da Art deco ?
Dutch: nl art deco m
Esperanto: eo artdekora
Estonian: et Art déco
Extremaduran: ext Art decó
Finnish: fi art deco
French: fr Art déco m
Galician: gl Art déco ?
Georgian: ka არტ-დეკო
German: de Art déco m f n
Greek: el Αρ Ντεκό ?
Hebrew: he אר דקו ?
Hungarian: hu Art déco
Indonesian: id Art Deco
Irish: ga Art Deco ?
Italian: it Art déco ?
Japanese: ja アール・デコ Āru deko
Kazakh: kk арт-деко, kk ар-деко
Korean: ko 아르데코
Latvian: lv Art Deco ?
Limburgish: li Art deco
Lithuanian: lt Art Deco ?
Macedonian: mk Ар деко
Malay: ms Art Deco
Marathi: mr आर डेको
Norwegian:
Bokmål: nb Art deco ?
Nynorsk: nn Art deco ?
Persian: fa آرت دکو
Picard: pcd Art déco ?
Polish: pl art déco n
Portuguese: pt art déco m, pt art deco m
Punjabi:
Western Punjabi: pnb آرٹ ڈیکو
Romanian: ro Art Deco ?
Russian: ru ар-деко́ n, ru арт-деко́ n
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh
Latin: sh Art déco ?
Slovak: sk art déco n, sk art deco n
Slovene: sl Art déco ?
Spanish: es art decó m
Swedish: sv Art déco ?
Tagalog: tl Art Deco
Tamil: ta எழில்படுக் கலை
Thai: th อลังการศิลป์
Turkish: tr Art deco
Ukrainian: uk ар-деко́ n, uk арт-деко́ n
Vietnamese: vi Art Deco
Zealandic: zea Art Deco
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