Before sitting down to write this article, I had the sense that an Art Deco living room wasn't going to be my cup of tea. I could only imagine the very archetype Art Deco style — glitzy and glamorous, yes, but by today's decorating standards, a tad kitsch. However, when you start to dig into this style, and how it manifests itself in a more contemporary home, it's a lot more varied, nuanced, and sophisticated than I first thought.
Art Deco interior design is a style that borrows from a lot of other movements and periods, after all. There was an obsession with Egyptian motifs, for example, spurred by the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb; a lingering legacy of the elegant Art Nouveau motifs that came before it; and the same Cubist inspiration as Bauhaus — an artistic movement occurring contemporaneously to Art Deco.
