IdcN holds approximately 2,000 Art Deco items, ranging from furniture to electric appliances, tableware, magazines and posters, all of which were produced in the United States in the 1930s. This mode of design, having permeated the country at the dawn of the age of mass production, serves as precious material demonstrating the great shift in society and the industrial structure in the 20th Century. Even today, these supremely playful objects assert an uncanny freshness.

This is a serial exhibit in which we show, on a theme-by-theme basis, our nearly 2,000 examples of Art Deco collection. This time, we will exhibit about 100 volumes of “LIFE”, and will introduce the social movements and the lives of people in the 1930s captured by photographers of the time, and the attractiveness of graphics in magazine design.

Please visit American Art Deco Collection Guide for the details.