The Art Deco style, named after the International Exhibition of
Decorative Arts, reached its peak in the 1920s. A new artistic language
driven by a formidable vital impulse born of recent peace, left its mark
on urban and domestic architecture, but also on all forms of design:
furniture, mural painting, glassware, ceramics. This book offers a
magnificently illustrated panorama of this ornamental aesthetic, which
blend into the world's artistic landscape with materials as luxurious as
lacquer, ivory or stingray.