Sunday, January 25, 2009

Art Deco Florals.




The name Art Deco comes from the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs Industriels et Modernes, held in Paris, which celebrated living in the modern world. The style began in France but American became the center of this artistic movement. Art Deco was the style of modern decoration and was applied to jewelry, clothing, furniture, and buildings. Industrial designer used Art Deco motifs to adorn their streamlined cars, trains and kitchen appliances as well. Art Deco ornamentation consists largely of low relief geometric designs often in the form of parallel straight lines, zigzags, chevrons and stylized floral motifs. 
Lately I have become so fascinated by the modern floral designs and have been seeing them around every turn. Hopefully my generation will see a unique style of ornamentation and design that I can gush about in the future, the way i do with designs of the past.

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