Find Art Deco style custom furniture at http://www.perczek.com. The Perczek showroom in the Design Center of the Americas (DCOTA) has been a leader in the South Florida design community since 1987. This video belongs to Alain Schmitt. We do not own the rights to this video. Copyright infringement is not intended. Art Deco was the most fashionable international design movement in modern art from 1925 until the 1940s. It was exemplified by the geometric designs of famous New York buildings such as the Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Centre. Like the earlier Arts and Crafts Movement, as well as the curvilinear style of design known as Art Nouveau, as well as the German Bauhaus design school concept, Art Deco embraced all types of art, from fine arts to custom furniture. Smooth lines, geometric shapes, streamlined forms and bright, sometimes garish colors characterized the art deco style, which above all reflected modern technology. Art Deco was initially a luxury style and a reaction against the austerity from World War I. It utilized costly materials like silver, crystal, ivory, jade and lacquer. After the Great Depression of the early 1930s, Art Deco designers began using less expensive and mass-produced materials like chrome and plastics, catering to an escalating middle class taste for a style that was elegant and glamorous. In the modern world, Art Deco can be seen in architecture, interior design, poster art, graphic design, jewelry, fashion and furniture design. In architecture, the Art Deco look signaled a return to the simplicity and symmetry of Neoclassicism, but without its classical regularity. Architects and artists in countries as diverse as Great Britain, Spain, Cuba, Indonesia, the Philippines, Argentina, Romania, Australia, New Zealand, India, Brazil and Colombia have enthusiastically adopted Art Deco architectural designs. This serves as a testament to the style's lasting monumentality.

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