Designer emile-jacques ruhlmann and edgar
Designer emile-jacques ruhlmann and edgar rice.
Designer emile-jacques ruhlmann and edgar
A Complete Guide to Art Deco Furniture
Lifestyle
By Adam Hencz
“Only the very rich can pay for what is new and they alone can make it fashionable.”
Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann
No other movement in decorative arts and architecture was ever able to celebrate urban life in such a glamorous and luxurious manner as Art Deco.
After a century of its golden days, the iconic design style is making its way back into mainstream design and is blossoming in cities like Los Angeles and Dubai, where glamorous interiors are spiced up by modern Art Deco furniture.
Advocating technological progress, sophistication and craftsmanship, Art Deco seems to be forever in trend.
Even though the style gained prominence and international acclaim at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, its underlying features and design forces appeared decades earlier, even before World War I.
The style undoubtedly originated from early 20th centu