Art Deco Interior Architecture is 100 years old this year – everything can be known about the permanent aesthetics here

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The living room Poirot solved his cases into the big Gatsby. The gold -plated dining room of the London Claridge Hotel. All of these are examples of Art -deco interior, and everyone has a permanent attraction, a shiny glamor full of slim silhouettes and gold -plated surfaces. This year, the 100th anniversary of the international exhibition of modern decorative and industrial arts in Paris, an influential exhibition in 1925 that ran for seven months and which will influence the global style for decoration. But even a century later, the Art -Deco -Inner Architecture is still relevant for the decor. His rules, principles and ideas that many of the designers inform in which we can be seen regularly Livingetc.

“Our references can be classic, based on aesthetics such as Art Deco, but withdrawn a little for today,” explains the interior designer Bryan O'Sullivan (who designed rooms at Claridge's rooms). One of his greatest inspirations was Jean Michel Frank, an important figure of the Art -deco interior architecture movement, which was known in the 1920s. “We designed a sofa based on a Jean Michel Frank,” he adds. “It was straightforward, had a wonderful depth and felt very elegant. You could really sit back, it was filled with foam, but it didn't look chaotic.”

And that is part of the ongoing attraction of Art -deco -innenarchitecture today. This interior design style was characterized by high, great and shimmering chic pieces, which happened to be comfortable, tempting and ready for a party. It is an aesthetic that fits very well with today's sociable attitude to interior. So to understand correctly how to create houses that feel right for the time being, it is important to look back on the best parts of the Art -deco -Inner Architecture Movement and how we are still informed about it today. You should know the following.

Why is the Art -deco interior architecture still relevant today?

Motifs, edges and shapes from the Art -deco -Inner architecture movement still appear regularly in decor. “The Art Deco interior design movement was about reducing things to their existential forms, playing with them and designing in very square lines or very circular edges,” explains Designer Scott Maddux, half of Studio, Maddux Creative. “For this reason, it feels very glamorous.”

Jake Arnold, interior designer from La La, is particularly inspired by the Hollywood rainy aesthetics, a style that has many similarities with Art Deco interior. “For me, Art Deco is timeless because it is about craftsmanship and silhouettes …”, he explains. “I love the hexagonal shapes and the feeling of polish that came from this time.”

What are the properties of the Art -deco interior architecture design?

“An art deco room is characterized by sophisticated restraint,” says Jena Quinn, co-founder of Studio QD. “In an Art -deco room everything was considered a coherent whole, the materials that were selected as a summary in order not to have an outstanding piece.”

“Every aspect was viewed from a functional perspective, and each piece has a lush and human -made element,” she continues. “The shapes have a simplicity, the lighting is plentiful and decorative, there are geometric shapes and antiquated brass and bronze surfaces.”

We often associate Art Deco Interior Design as Grand, but Jena's design partner Lucy Derbyshire adds that parts are selected more for their functionality, and it is the ingredients that make the room appear so opulent. “Wall paneling, luxurious fabrics and paints feel luxurious,” she says.

What colors are connected to Art -deco interior architecture?

“Art Deco interior design is always about lush and rich tones,” says Lucy Derbyshire. “And a lot of beige and white, especially with black,” adds Jena Quinn and notes that olive green is also a key shadow.

And due to the regular use of reflective surfaces, you can really play with color power, adds Lucy. “These golden colors all jump in the room and shit out of exotic forests in a very opulent way.”

For this reason, backgrounds are usually steamed. “The color itself came from the works of art,” explains Jena. “The artists who were great at that time – like Salvador Dali and Alberto Giacometti – actually worked with many of the famous Art -deco designer, so that their liveliness and use of color are infused into the aesthetics of time and the literal art in Bring the interior. “

What are the inspirations for Art Deco Interior Design?

The 1920s were a particularly fast -paced, turbulent and constantly changing time. “During this time there was a lot of young people exuberant,” says Jena. “People had lived the First World War and the Spanish pandemic in 1918 and were so much destroyed. People wanted to change, and there was optimism for a new future. And there was a lot of money before the crash and great depression.”

“The cocktail had just been invented,” added Lucy Derbyshire. “F. Scott Fitzgerald contributed to inventing a lifestyle of” drink, party, live “in which people wanted to feel and how they wanted their houses to look.” And of course sharper, more elegant and more sophisticated rooms were needed as a background for this new way of life.

“And don't forget that Tutanche's grave was discovered in 1922,” adds Jena. “This explains the interest in gilding, lapis and the repeating motifs.”

These were all important topics and influences for the Art -deco interior architecture.

What was inspired by the Art -deco interior architecture?

Hollywood Regency, a style that is still cited by designers like Jake Arnold, was inspired by the Art Deco Design movement. “The Hollywood film industry was one of the most important opportunities how the word of Art Deco spread,” says Jena. “The first globalized aesthetics. Cedric Gibbons was a famous set designer at that time and spread the exhibition from 1925 in Paris in his films.”

“But of course Hollywood Hollywood continued to throw him, exaggerated him, huged white white and larger scales,” added Lucy. “And so Hollywood Regency was born – still with the same principles of scale and symmetry and repetition, but bigger. Hollywood Regency and Art -Deco are completely connected.”

What is the difference between Art Deco and Art Nouveau?

Art Nouveau was the key style from the 1880s to the First World War, and there are definitely some similarities between it and Art -deco interior.

“But the Art Nouveau was more organic and focused more on curves and natural forms and shapes,” says Lucy. “When Art Deco came, they recorded new technologies that were suddenly available, and created forms that were more aerodynamic and large and human – or machine – craft instead of reflecting nature.”

Art Nouveau also revolved around the geometry, but there is more flourishing than in Art -deco, more curlicues and less straight lines.

How did Art Deco interior design developed?

Squin, and you can still still see the Art -deco -Dome Architecture influences in this contemporary bedroom by Bryan O'Sullivan (see above). They are in the slim stem of the lamp, the plush fabric on the bed and the chair, the gentle round of the desk.

While many of its principles are relevant for the design today, the Art -deco -Dome Architecture has definitely developed a little in the past 100 years.

“It is interesting to see how designers have crossed the ideas from this time,” says Jake Arnold. “Things are usually a bit more delicate, against which a little less polished at the time, but the elegant shapes and outlines have remained.”

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Jena and Lucy lead the successful London Design Agency Studio QD and also write beautiful and well -researched design books. Your latest explains the history of the Art -deco movement and shows – full of beautiful pictures – why and how it is relevant today.

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