среда, 14 марта 2012 г.

A stylish nod to Art Deco

LONDON--There's the glass, marble and steel foyer of London'sStrand Palace Hotel, a gleaming 1940 Wurlitzer juke box and a purple1935 speedster car. London's Victoria and Albert Museum has opened anexhibit of Art Deco, the classic design style that glamorizedeverything in the 1920s and 1930s from skyscrapers, streamlinedtrains and the interiors of ocean liners to coffee pots and powdercompacts.

"It's the first [exhibition] to explore Art Deco as a globalphenomenon and is the most comprehensive celebration of it everstaged," said the show's chief curator, Ghislaine Wood. "The last wasin Minneapolis in 1976, and it won't be done again for another 30years, which is about the …

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