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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 4370913, member: 2844&quot;]The &quot;<i>Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes&quot; , the </i>exhibition Art Deco was named after, was originally planned for 1915. WWI threw a spanner in the works, and the efforts to get France and French arts back on their feet financially, meant the exhibition had to be postponed to 1925.</p><p>That didn&#039;t mean that between 1915 and 1925 the decorative arts in Western Europe suddenly did a backflip into the fashions of ca 1900.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>In short, Art Deco already existed on a significant scale in the 1910s, but became more widely known after 1920. A delay due to geo-political events.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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