Table of Contents:
  • PART I. INTRODUCTION
  • The style and the age / Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton
  • The Great War, mass society and 'modernity' / Arthur Marwick
  • PART II. SOURCES AND ICONOGRAPHY
  • Egyptomania / Christopher Frayling
  • Deco sculpture and archaism / Penelope Curtis
  • Ancient Mexican sources of art deco / Oriana Baddeley
  • Inspiration from the East / Anna Jackson
  • Collecting and constructing Africa / Ghislaine Wood
  • National traditions / Juliette Hibou
  • Avant-garde sources / Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton
  • From Pattern to abstraction / Jonathan M. Woodham
  • The exotic / Ghislaine Wood
  • PART III. THE PARIS 1925 EXHIBITION
  • The international exhibition / Charlotte Benton
  • Paris 1925: consuming modernity / Tag Gronberg
  • The artist-decorator / Stéphane Laurent
  • PART IV. THE SPREAD OF DECO
  • Germany, Austria and the Netherlands / Reino Liefkes
  • Art deco in Central Europe / David Crowley
  • 'Lovely neoclassical byways': art deco in Scandinavia / Jennifer Hawkins Opie
  • European glass / Ghislaine Wood
  • Italian architecture and design / Tim Benton
  • Conscience and consumption: art deco in Britain / Gillian Naylor
  • British art deco ceramics / Alun Graves
  • Art deco architecture / Tim Benton
  • Art deco fashion / Valerie Mendes
  • Art deco jewellery / Clare Phillips
  • Photography and the new vision / Mark Haworth-Booth
  • Art deco graphic design and typography / Jeremy Aynsley
  • Art deco bindings ; Art deco and the book jacket / Rowan Watson, Annemarie Riding
  • PART V. THE DECO WORLD
  • Travel, transport and art deco / Paul Atterbury
  • Art deco and hollywood film / Ghislaine Wood
  • 'The filter of American taste': design in the USA in the 1920s / Wendy Kaplan
  • American metalwork between the wars / Jeannine Falino
  • New materials and technologies / Jeffrey L. Meikle
  • The search for an American design aesthetic: from art deco to streamlining / Nicolas P. Maffei
  • Art deco in East Asia / Anna Jackson
  • Indo-deco / Amin Jaffer
  • Ambiguously modern: art deco in Latin America / Rafael Cardoso
  • 'A growing enthusiasm for modernity': art deco in Australia / Christopher Menz
  • Art deco in South Africa / Dipti Bhagat
  • Decline and revival / Charlotte Benton, Time Benton.