Art deco arrived in 1925 as a provocation — disciplined geometric lines as a rebuke to art nouveau’s soft florals, gleaming metal against hand-carved wood, the machine age muscling into Edwardian ...
“Can’t repeat the past?…Why of course you can!” said Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s beloved novel, The Great Gatsby. That’s exactly the sentiment as Art Deco officially turns 100 years this year.