Art Deco Style Architecture
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In 1925, 4,000 guests arrived in Paris, France for the "Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes", or the "International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts". The fair was held to introduce
the world to a new type of art. This style, which focused mainly on simple designs dealing with geometric lines, spread throughout Western Europe and eventually reached the United States. It dealt with just about everything dealing with art-architecture included.
Since houses began to be constructed in this new style, which was very different from other styles being built at the time, they needed a named to classify them. That name came in the 1960s, when art historian Bevi Hillier shortened the exposition's name for…
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