Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Once a year, interior designer Nicky Haslam creates a tea towel listing the things he finds \u201ccommon\u201d. The designer\u2019s latest manifesto of aesthetic no-nos includes 1930s ceramicist Clarice Cliff, whose angular tea sets, emblazoned with zingy Jazz Age motifs, were the epitome of Art Deco. It\u2019s a piquant indictment that captures the at once elitist and mass-market popularity of the Paris-born design style, whose defining characteristics continue to both inspire and confound as it turns 100 this year.The name was coined at the 1925 Exposition des Arts D\u00e9coratifs in Paris. Here, international pavilions showcased the very latest in design, art and manufacturing: \u201creproductions, imitations and counterfeits of ancient styles\u201d were banned. Exhibits including Ren\u00e9 Lalique\u2019s cascading glass, \u00c9mile-Jacques Ruhlmann\u2019s luxurious furniture, Gio Ponti\u2019s neoclassical ceramics and Orrefors glass, were all chosen for their originality and craftsmanship \u2014 a celebration of the truly modern.\u00a0\u201cThe Paris exhibition is like a city in a dream,\u201d wrote Vogue\u2019s London correspondent at the time. \u201c[It] would give the psychoanalysts a run for their money.\u201dWhat emerged was \u201ca distinct, clear-cut style\u201d, says Belgian designer Gert Voorjans. It was a reaction to the historicism of previous decades and had a genuine sense of novelty. \u201cIt expressed a desire for change after the first world war. People were shocked at the devastation and anxious about the future\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009They were looking for certainty and optimism.\u201dThe exhibition also marked a turning point because it \u201cprefigured a world of luxury, where the worlds of fashion and decorative art intersect\u201d, says Paris-based antiques dealer turned collector Laurent-Alexis Guelfucci.\u00a0Art Deco subsequently gripped imaginations across the globe. Its foliate columns, chromium curves, glassy black surfaces and ziggurat motifs percolated down the design chain; from grand hotels and Mayfair apartments to Bakelite radios, fire surrounds, cinemas and bingo halls. As a result, Deco became diluted: which is why the cognoscenti is often sniffy about it.But is that unfair? For Guelfucci, there is no such thing as \u201cgood\u201d or \u201cbad\u201d Art Deco. \u201cIt\u2019s the difference between the innovators and the resulting mass production. It began as an elitist style, so popularisation was inevitable.\u201d One of Guelfucci\u2019s rarer finds, a desk by\u00a0Elizabeth Eyre de Lanux,\u00a0found its way into the collection of late Deco enthusiast Karl Lagerfeld.\u00a0His clients include Marc Jacobs and Alaia\u2019s Pieter Mulier. \u201cThere\u2019s a new generation of collectors enamoured with luxury and rare materials,\u201d he says. They want to \u201crelive an era that\u2019s gone forever\u201d.Many contemporary designers are in agreement, taking inspiration from the style and reinterpreting it.\u201cBritish Art Deco can be as stuffy as a dowager duchess,\u201d says interior architect Martin Brudnizki. But when it\u2019s done well, it is \u201cthe perfect balance between classicism and Modernism\u201d. He\u2019s a nostalgist for the salons of 1930s designers like Betty Joel, Oliver Hill or Syrie Maugham, where Bright Young Things traded cocktail-fuelled aper\u00e7us on satin sofas among mirror-lined walls.\u201cThere was a materiality to the period which I find inspiring,\u201d says Brudnizki. \u201cIt was all about craftsmanship.\u201d Straw marquetry, inlaid oak, glossy bird\u2019s eye maple, shagreen or vellum surfaces were combined with streamlined silhouettes. Too much Deco can look gaudy and contrived. Used in moderation, it can be superlatively chic. \u201cYou can dial the decoration up or down. Which makes it appealing \u2014 and modern,\u201d he says.Too much Deco can look gaudy and contrived. In moderation, it can be superlatively chic. \u2018You can dial the decoration up or down. Which makes it appealing \u2014 and modern\u2019Art Deco is the theme of this year\u2019s Brafa art and antiques fair in Brussels (January 26-February 2). Highlights capture the movement\u2019s breadth: a geometric silver tea set and cutlery by JE Puiforcat; a Daum table lamp embellished with a futuristic zigzag motif; Jean Dunand\u2019s Japanese style \u201cSwans and Water Lilies\u201d lacquered screen. As art historian Bevis Hillier put it, Deco was \u201ca total style\u201d \u2014 from jewellery and interiors to architecture and fashion.Designers \u201cwould work on everything from a sweeping staircase down to a teaspoon for a client. This obsession with detail in the pursuit of a unified gesamtkunstwerk holds an enduring appeal,\u201d says designer Duncan Campbell. \u201cThese pieces can engender a spirit of\u2009.\u2009.\u2009. conviviality.\u201dTogether with design partner Charlotte Rey, Campbell looked to 1930s exponent Jean Dunand for their new collection with The Lacquer Company. Interior designer Bryan O\u2019Sullivan\u2019s curvaceous furniture draws on his experience of redesigning the Painter\u2019s Room, a bar at Claridge\u2019s, where he trawled the historic hotel\u2019s cavernous store rooms for ideas. \u201cIt\u2019s the layering of details \u2014 mosaics with glass, a fluted chair leg \u2014 that I like,\u201d he says. Interior designer Trilbey Gordon uses inlaid metals and lacquered walls for a Deco feel in her residential projects. They are anything but alone: the influence can be seen across many a chubby sofa, inlaid screen or twinkling drinks cabinet.Art Deco flourished across Europe \u2014 Italy\u2019s Novecento, Sweden\u2019s Swedish Grace, Amsterdam\u2019s Expressionist school were some of its variants \u2014 until the late 1930s, each country\u2019s heritage influencing its stylistic evolution. It also intertwined with Egyptomania, sparked by the discovery of Tutankhamun\u2019s tomb in 1922, which was expressed in sphinxes, palm leaves and hieroglyphs on white concrete (\u201csnowcrete\u201d) facades.\u00a0\u00a0As well as Africa, Deco curves popped up around the world from Malaysia to Australia. At the Umaid Bhawan Palace (now a hotel) in Jodhpur, there are curvaceous baths framed by pale-green tiles and frescoes in the Indo-Deco style.London-based architect and designer Charu Gandhi, founder of Elicyon studio, fell in love with the style as a child in Mumbai. The ocean-liner style balconies, towers and portholes of Marine Drive \u2014 inspired by luxury ships docked in the port \u2014 or in districts like Colaba were an early fascination that can be seen across her practice. \u201cEvery country has their own twist. Deco sits well with vernacular Indian architecture in a happy ecosystem.\u201dThe US didn\u2019t take part in the 1925 show but soon made up for it. Deco was a \u201ccosier\u201d version of Modernism, says interior designer and writer David Netto, its influence spreading from New York to Miami. \u201cDeco gave a jazz-age energy to design that felt approachable.\u201d There was also \u201ca lot of bad Deco,\u201d he argues. But the best is instantly recognisable: the needle-nosed Chrysler building or Donald Deskey\u2019s Radio City Music Hall.\u00a0It didn\u2019t have to be showy. Rosario Candela was the Sicilian-born architect behind New York\u2019s most patrician apartment buildings on Park Avenue and Sutton Place and the subject of Netto\u2019s latest book, with co-authors Paul Goldberger and Peter Pennoyer. He approached Deco with \u201crestraint \u2014 and refinement\u201d, says Netto, fusing angularity with neoclassical detailing.In London, \u201cArt Deco has a different reputation\u201d, says dealer Marine Edith Crosta, most of whose clients are from the US and Europe. \u201cSome people still think it\u2019s all about brown varnished furniture, partly because a lot of it has been badly restored. But that\u2019s changing.\u201d Her apartment pays tribute to the era with a sculptural fireplace inspired by architect Djo-Bourgeois.\u201cValues have risen consistently, making it appealing to investors,\u201d she continues, citing the work of Jean-Michel Frank. A console by Frank sold for $630,000 at Christie\u2019s in 2022. Even later Deco-inspired pieces such as Jean Roy\u00e8re\u2019s 1950s Ours Polaire seating \u2014 a squashy hug of upholstery \u2014 can fetch astral sums. In 2023, a suite sold for $3.42mn at Christie\u2019s New York.Designer Linda Boronkay is currently working on the restoration of a 1930s hotel in the south of France. \u201cAs designers we\u2019re always looking for ways to reinvent ourselves. Deco was a [style] of experimentation,\u201d says Boronkay, whose interest was kindled by childhood excursions to antiques shops in her native Budapest. That spirit \u201cof adventure \u2014 and newness\u201d is worth celebrating, says Boronkay, whether it\u2019s mass market or top tier. It\u2019s a century of enduring chic.Find out about our latest stories first \u2014 follow @ft_houseandhome on Instagram<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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