Art Deco owed much of its inital popularity to the great international Exhibition of Decorative Arts held in Paris in 1925 . But it is a mistake to suppose that it is something typically in French, peculiar to the 1920's and 30's , and confined to the minor arts of decoration like Jewelry and Furniture.

None of this is true . The modern decorative art that goes by the name of Art Deco is a much bigger movement , international in scope and reaching back to the opening years of the twentieth century. This book is the first to demontrate its true scope, as an art movement overlapping with Art Nouveau and carrying on where it left off.