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Art Deco
- a style fashionable during the 1920s-30s. The name is said to derive from an
exhibition of mainly industrial art held in Paris in 1925. Unlike modernism, it was never
particularly functional, being something of a simpler, chunkier, art nouveau. Usually associated
more with internal work. Best examples are to be found in 30s cinemas and some New York
skyscrapers.