Art Deco was primarily a design call popular in 1920-1930's, which is a follow up of Art Nouveau. These forms showed their domination in the mass production of fashion, furniture, jewelry, textiles, architecture, commercial print making , and interior decorations.

Decorating with 1930’s Art Deco Furniture

Decorating with 1930’s Art Deco furniture is a great way to intend a fun, beautiful, and decidedly unique look for your home. Modern furnishings look great with Art Deco pieces. . Make a plan for what styles of pieces to acquire and stick to that plan. Also, think about the sizes you are hunting for .Great pieces that actually do not fit nicely into a room will detract from your art deco theme.

By the 1930's, the kitchen was being transformed from the old fashioned kitchen to the "Streamlined-Modern Kitchen" with time saving features, meliorate methodical uses ‘and much improved ventilation. The "all-electric kitchen" was promoted in popular magazines with numerous advertisements showing newly fashioned small and major appliances. Mixers were the homemakers dream now fashioned with numerous attachments that could sift flour, mix dough, grate cheese, squeeze lemons, whip potatoes, shred, and slice and chop vegetables and even sharpen knives.

"Depression Green" was the” in" color utilized on the wooden handles of kitchen utensils, on kitchen cabinets and tables and on kitchen wares. Often accessories were cream and green replacing the white and black look of the previous decades.

Other popular color combinations in the 1930s were Gray and Red or Crimson, Silver and Green, Pearl Pink and Blue, as well as the use of checkered patterns on textiles. Kitchen wares much as canisters and Bread boxes tended to be softly painted with perhaps with a decal.

In 1935 the National Modernization Bureau was established to promote modernization throughout the country. Manufacturers competed for meliorate fashioned appliances and kitchen accessories. Color began appear in the kitchens of the rich and famous. These kitchens were featured in women's publications. Articles in magazines featured decorating tips on color schemes and how to combine the kitchen into the rest of the home.

Kitchens were no longer individual work stations but gaining as much attention as the rest of the home. Small and large appliances were available in color and Sears and Montgomery Ward featured colorful kitchen wares and "japanned" accessories in a vast range of gadgets, canister sets, range sets, cake savers, bread boxes and waste baskets.

Examples popular sitting room chairs are many over stuffed leather or cloth chairs from the 1930’s are the. Mies Van Der Rhoe Barcelona Chair and the Flat Bar BRNO Cantilever Chair.

Mies Van Der Rhoe Barcelona Chair It is often sold today with a matching stool. It was first fashioned in 1929. Inside it is filled with PU-foam and the outside is covered in fine Italian leather. It is very representative of the simplicity that was during this time period, which marked the beginning of the Great Depression. The Flat Bar BRNO Cantilever Chair (Brno Chair) The comfy chair was a very popular 1930s item. It is a basic sitting chair that can be settled in nearly any room, including living rooms or family rooms..

You can do an authentic salon or parlor by getting a reproduction black 1930’s rotary phone. For technical reasons you probably do not want to buy a real 1930’s Art Deco Furniture phone from the thirties. You can resonally acquire a reproduction of a phone of that period for about fifty dollars.

Art Deco decorating is proof that the Depression Era was not really depressed when it came to style.