Interior Design Style - Art Deco

The start of mass production enabled everyone to enjoy the style of Art Deco. Homes were transformed from humdrum, bland and boring places to those which oozed chic style. Geometric and angular shapes took precedent along with colour schemes of gloss black, silver, chrome and red.

Many of the designs were influenced by the new age of travel and people used their new found affluence to travel. Advertising posters beckoned people to holiday hot-spots and home and abroad. Many of these posters are now incredibly rare, but there's plenty of re-pros about that you can use to adorn the walls of an Art Deco inspired interior.

A Touch of Art Deco

If you love Art Deco you'll love this stylish bedroom with fabulous burred walnut bedside tables. The characteristic shape oozes chic styling and suit this cream and brown colour scheme beautifully. Art Deco is the period in time when machine and hand-crafted furniture stood side-by-side comfortably.

Art Deco embraced technology representing luxury and glamour being defined by historian Bevis Hillier as "an assertively modern style...[that] ran to symmetry rather than asymmetry, and to the rectilinear rather than the curvilinear; it responded to the demands of the machine and of new material...[and] the requirements of mass production.''

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