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Art Deco was a popular design movement from 1920 until 1939, affecting the decorative arts such as architecture, interior design and industrial design, and visual arts such as fashion, painting, graphic arts, and film. This movement, in a sense, is a combination of various styles and movements in the early 20th century, including constructionism, Cubism, Modernism, Bauhaus, Art Nouveau, and Futurism. Its popularity peaked in the 1920s. Although many design movements have roots or political or philosophical purpose, Art Deco purely decorative. At that time, this style is considered elegant, functional, and ultra-modern.

History

After the 1900 World Exposition, various French artists formed a formal collective, La Société des artistes décorateurs. Its founders included Hector Guimard, Eugène Grasset, Raoul Lachenal, Paul Follot, Maurice Dufrene, and Emile Decour. These artists heavily influenced the principles of Art Deco in general. This society's purpose is to show where the leading and the evolution of French decorative arts internationally. Naturally, when they organized the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exposition for Decorative Arts and Modern Industry) in 1925, which displays art and French business interests.

This initial movement is called Style Moderne. The term Art Deco was taken from the 1925 Exposition, though only in the 1960s this term was created, when the revival of Art Deco.