Art deco interiors : decoration and design classics of the 1920s and 1930s /

　　By the time of the great aris Exhibition of 1925, the idea thatan interior and its furnishings should form a comlete design -- a"total look" -- dominated the thinking of both designers and theirsohisticated clients. In the later 1920s and 1930s, whole studioswere established, notably in France and the United States, to servethe needs of a design- and style-conscious middle class-intent onshowing off its newly refined taste for things modern and exotic:the richly lacquered screen, the tubular steel chair, the vividgeometric caret.Art Deco Interiors documents this flourishing ofdesign ingenuity in Euroe and America. Using contemoraryhotograhs and illustrations of interiors, juxtaosed with modernhotograhs of individual ieces, it traces the stylistic evolutionand dominant motifs of Deco. atricia Bayer illustrates the triumhof the 1925 exhibition and the establishment of the ure high styleof the leading aris ensembliers, and assesses the tremendousgrowth of jazzy, Streamline Moderne offshoots in the United States.Major chaters are devoted to large-scale designs for ocean liners,cinemas, theaters, offices, and hotels, and to the revival in the1970s and 1980s of Deco as a decorative style.