Really cool design, but I wouldn’t want to live every day surrounded by in it my home. Love the clothes and jewelry!
(Seems like the music is more ‘40s than ‘20s. Not sure.)
I didn’t know Art Deco predated WWI. But wasn’t it the source of “dazzle painting” applied to Allied ships to confuse enemy U-Boats?
But it didn’t get its name until 1925. And the Chrysler Building is to me the finest and most conspicuous example pf Art Deco.
Must be some social histories of the Twenties which describe those who lived in it; most were already adults during the Great War 1914-1918 yet avoided it somehow. Often discussed on FR are the long term effects of the best young men in WWI on both sides being mostly wiped out. Felt to this day.