From skyscrapers and advertising to home appliances and art, Art Deco has become a byword to describe the forward-leaning aesthetics of the first decades of the 20th century. But what went into the melting pot of a new decorative style meant to bring modernity at a time of unseen-before technological advancement?
In “Art Deco Style,” independent researcher and former assistant curator of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York Jared Gross gives insight into the wealth of references that were modernized, assimilated and adapted into this worldwide movement that marked the advent of attractive consumer goods.
Expect posse battles between the winners and losers of Sidaction auctions of different years; an imaginary dance-off between Coco Rocha and Pigalle’s Stéphane Ashpool, or just to see the mischievous true faces of his subjects, like Marc Jacobs hiding his face in a puff of white smoke in this ode to nighttime fun.