15 Stunning Examples of Art Deco Design That Will Blow You Away

These swoon-worthy buildings and objects are precious reminders of this wonderful time in modern art and design.

The design movement has many names: streamline, style moderne, and some folks even get art nouveau confused with art deco because the two share design elements and are near in time to one another. But, art deco is a distinctive style that was born in Paris and spread around the world in the ’20s and ’30s. The modern materials and clean lines spoke to a pre-Depression generation obsessed with modernity and sophistication.

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