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ART DECO HISTORY AND HOROLOGY
The name ‘Art Deco’ goes back to the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes held in Paris and is also known as ‘style moderne’. Art Deco would be the short form of ‘arts décoratifs’, which was literally a fundamental aspect of Art Deco; using a host of decorative techniques to accentuate a variety of objects and structures directed towards architecture, art, or jewelry design. This included sleek and stylized shapes, bold lines and figures often for separation, and repetition in various forms – think of the long rectangular case of the Cartier Tank Cintrée. Part of the decorative aspect of Art Deco was using specifically new man-made materials, including the famous Bakelite, and also natural ones. Thus, Art Deco, in its essence, is rarely mass-produced.
The style is said to have been inspired by Native American and Egyptian sources but also a number of previous movements, namely Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, and Cubism.
https://montrespubliques.com/new-1minut ... d-horology
The style is said to have been inspired by Native American and Egyptian sources but also a number of previous movements, namely Art Nouveau, Bauhaus, and Cubism.
https://montrespubliques.com/new-1minut ... d-horology

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