The most productive time of the Art Deco period spans the years 1900 to around 1930 but continued in part until just before the start of the second world war. A World fair during 1939 in New York was probably the last great event in the Art Deco style. In addition to the Arts, the various geometric forms of the Art Deco style and design permeated other areas of life such as architecture, interior design, home furnishings and appliances, clothing and jewelery.

The name Art Deco wasn't coined until the 1960's. Taking its name from the Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs of 1925, Art Deco is a style associated with the late 1920s and early 1930s with emphasis on richly-coloured and geometric patterns, new materials and styles and a decorative approach to modernism.

I've trawled the Internet for the history and definition of 'Art Deco' and found differing answers. One person said that if you asked seventy people for a definition you would probably get seventy different answers and this would apply equally to 'experts'.

The Collins dictionary definition is: -
A style of interior decoration, jewellery, architecture etc. at its height in the 1930's and characterised by geometric shapes, stylized natural forms and symmetrical utilitarian designs adapted to mass production.

The simplest definition I found on the Internet was: If Art Nouveau was curves – then Art Deco was angles.

For more information on Art Deco read:
Deco: a style? – by Professor Tim Benton and
Art Deco at the National Art Library, Word & Image Department: a study guide
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The table lamps are octagonal or hexagonal pyramids, with contrasting inlays to accentuate the geometric shape and angular lines. The optional decorative grooves further emphasise the shape.

The wooden vases are octagonal with, unusually, the base larger than the top, forming a truncated cone. Contrasting inlays accentuate the geometric shape and its angular lines. The optional decorative grooves further emphasise the shape.

The wall clocks are made from twelve sections of wood, with contrasting inlays between the sections marking the hours. Two ranges of designs are available. One, with traditional inset numbered clock faces, have purely geometric outlines, for example the Snowflake or Sun designs. The other range, with long wooden hands, includes both the geometric designs and others, like the Butterfly and Leaf wall clocks, bases on natural forms.

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