Art Deco was an elegant, stylized period of art, architecture, and design that graced the decades of the 1920s and 1930s. Inspired and propelled by the development of aerodynamic forms of transportation and innovative industrial design, Art Deco was also a product of the fertile artistic exchange between Paris and America that occurred after World War I. Join Ann and Eleanor as they discuss how New York City became one of the most celebrated centers of Art Deco design and explore the history of some of the city’s most iconic Art Deco architecture and art.
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