Art Deco (French: Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes) was an early twentieth century movement in the decorative arts, that also grew in influence to affect architecture, fashion and the visual arts. Art Deco - Overview. Art Deco derived its name from the World's fair held in Paris in 1925, formally titled the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, which showcased French luxury goods and reassured the world that Paris r ...

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Blackpool is a seaside town in England, on the coast of the Irish Sea. It is traditionally part of Lancashire but on April 1, 1998 was made into an independent unitary authority. It is believed to get its name from a long gone drainage channel which ran over a peat bog. The water which ran into the sea at Blackpool was black from the peat and formed a "black pool" in the relatively clean waters of the Irish Sea. It is generally believed locally that people originating from Blackpool are called "Sand Grown" or "Sandgrown'uns," but these terms may b ...

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Bisbee is a city located in Cochise County, Arizona, USA, 82 miles (132 km) southeast of Tucson. It is located within a productive copper region. In 1910, 9,019 people lived here; in 1940, 5,853 people lived here. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 6,090. The city is the county seat of Cochise CountyGR6. Bisbee Arizona - History. Bisbee was founded as a copper, gold, and silver mining town in 1880, and named in honor of Judge DeWitt Bisbee, one of the finan ...

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The Arts and Crafts movement was a reformist movement, at first inspired by the writings of John Ruskin, that was at its height between approximately 1880–1910. The movement influenced British decorative arts, architecture, cabinet making, crafts, and even the "cottage" garden designs of William Robinson or Gertrude Jekyll. Its best-known practitioners were William Morris, Charles Robert Ashbee, T. J. Cobden Sanderson, Walter Crane, Phoebe Anna Traquair, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Christopher Dresser, Edwin Lutyens and artists in the Pre-Raphaelite movement. The Arts and Crafts movement was part of the major En ...

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Brighton on the southern Sussex coast is one of the largest and most famous seaside resorts in England. Brighton and Hove form a single conurbation. Brighton's lively atmosphere is a direct contrast to its near neighbour, Hove which has quieter and more refined character. The two boroughs were joined together to form the unitary authority of Brighton & Hove in 1997, which in 2000 was granted city status by the Queen as part of the millennial celebrations, following competition from other large towns which coveted city status. ...

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Café de Flore sits just off the Boulevard Saint-Germain, on the Rue Bonaparte, in Paris, France. It used to be famed for its intellectual clientele. The classic Art Deco interior of all red seating, mahogany and mirrors has changed little since the war. Like its main rival Les Deux Magots, it has hosted most of the French intellectuals during the post-war years. It is said that Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir would meet here and dis ...

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Cagliari is the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari is called Casteddu (literally, the castle) in the Sardinian language. It has about 170,000 inhabitants, or about 300,000 including the suburbs (metropolitan area) (Elmas, Pirri, Selargius, Monserrato, Quartucciu, Quartu Sant'Elena). Under the name of Karalis it was one of a string of Phoenician trading colonies in Sardinia, including Sulcis, Nora, and Tharros, that were founded from Tyre in the 7th centu ...

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Art periods, movements, and groups. Art periods - Prehistoric art. Pre-historic art | Category:Pre-historic art Cave painting Section to be expanded. Art periods - African art. African art | Category:African art Section to be expanded. Art periods - Oceania art. Section to be expanded. Art periods - South American art. Section to be expanded.Including:

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Art Nouveau (French for "new art") is a style in art, architecture and design that peaked in popularity at the beginning of the 20th century. Other, more localized terms for the cluster of self-consciously radical, somewhat mannered reformist chic that formed a prelude to 20th-century modernism, included "Jugendstil" in Germany and the Netherlands, named for the snappy avant-garde periodical Jugend ('Youth') or "Sezessionsstil" ('Secessionism') in Vienna, where forward-looking artists and designers seceded from the mainstream salon exhibitions, to ex ...

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The Aquarian Tarot Deck was first published by Morgan Press in 1970. It is now printed by AG Müller and distributed by U.S. Games, a major North American tarot deck distributor. The deck was created and illustrated by David Palladini. Palladini combined the ancient symbols of the traditional Tarot with more modern, updated images in a combination of Art Deco and Art Nouveau styles. He created a unique blend of colourful, emotive backgrounds with pale faced, stoic characters. Depending on one's response to the deck, these image ...

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1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1930s - Events and trends. The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. In Australia, this decade was known as the Dirty Thirties. In both Central Europe and Eastern Europe, Fascism, Nazism, Stalinism,dominated as the solution, the first two adopting war-oriented economic policies and the l ...

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1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 Sometimes referred to as the "Jazz Age" or primarily in North America and in Australia as the "Roaring Twenties" . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. See 1920s Berlin. 1920s - Events and trends. Since the closing of the 20th Century, the 1920s has drawn close associations with the 1990s, especially in the United States. This due to the fact both d ...

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Architectural history studies the evolution and history of architecture across the world through a consideration of various influences- artistic, cultural, political, economic and technological. In general, the question is one of relating meaning (intangible functions, purposes, symbols) with the built environment (material tables, windows, roofs, paths) through the necessities of life (food, work, communion etc.) within the historical context. Architectural history, like any other form of historical knowledge, is subject to the limit ...

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Architectural history - Writing Tabula Rasa Architectural history - Postmodern architecture Architectural history - Critical Regionalism
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Arsenal Football Club (also known as Arsenal, The Arsenal or The Gunners) are an English professional football club based in north London. They play in the FA Premier League and are one of the most successful clubs in England. Arsenal have won thirteen First Division and Premier League titles, and the FA Cup ten times, although the team have yet to achieve similar success in the UEFA Champions League. Arsenal were founded in south-east London in 1886, but moved to their current home ground, the Arsenal Stad ...

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Architectural style constitutes a mode of classifying architecture largely by morphological characteristics in terms of form, techniques, materials, etc. However it is not a holistic way of understanding architectural works because of its emphasis on style. It overlaps with and emerges from the study of the evolution and history of architecture, but it is slightly different in its emphasis. While in architectural history, the study of, for instance, Gothic architecture would include all the aspects of the cultural context that went in ...

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Interior decoration is the art of decorating a room so it looks good, is easy to use, and functions well with the existing architecture. The goal of interior decoration is to provide a certain "feel" for the room; it encompasses applying wallpaper, painting walls and other surfaces, choosing furniture and fittings, such as light fixtures, and providing other decorations for the area such as paintings and sculptures. Interior decorating is done professionall ...

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Cincinnati is a city in southwestern Ohio, United States that lies on the Ohio River and is the county seat of Hamilton CountyGR6. It is nicknamed "The Queen City" (also "The Queen of the West," "The Blue Chip City," "The City of Seven Hills" and "Cincinnata") and is sometimes abbreviated to "Cincy", "Cinci", or "Cinti". As of the 2000 census, Cincinnati had a total population of 331,285, making it the third largest city in Ohio. It has a much l ...

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The Upper West Side is a neighborhood of the borough of Manhattan in New York City that lies between Central Park and the Hudson River. Upper West Side - Geography. In modern terms, the Upper West Side is bounded on the south by 59th Street, Central Park to the east, and the Hudson River to the west. Its northern boundary is somewhat less obvious; while often cited as 110th Street, it is more accurately around 123rd Street, encompassing Morningside Heights, the site of Columbia University. 123rd Street is p ...

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Croydon Airport was in south London on the borders of the London Boroughs of Croydon and Sutton. It was the main airport for London before it was replaced by Northolt Aerodrome, London Heathrow Airport and London Gatwick Airport. It originated as two adjacent World War I airfields - Beddington Aerodrome, one of a number of small airfields around London, which had been created for protection against the Zeppelin raids in about May 1915, and Waddon Aerodrome of 1918, a test-flig ...

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