Why Art Deco Still Dazzles 100 Years On

Before ornament was declared a crime and excised from modernists’ vocabularies, it had one last spectacular gasp in the glitz and glamor of Art Deco. One hundred years on, celebrations of the movement emphasize its complexity. Sitting between a dazzling milieu of precious luxury and an industrial age recovering from a great war, Art Deco asks us to reckon with the place of art and design in modern life.Art Deco was consolidated in a 1925 international design exhibition in Paris, and it is