Art Deco, 85 years later

Bringing together a remarkable set of more than 150 porcelains, ceramics, glass, paintings, drawings, sculptures, jewellery and furniture designed to evoke the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts held in Paris, in 1925, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon presents the excellent show Art Deco 1925, paying homage to an artistic style that confirmed itself from the 1920s onwards. The show runs until January 3, 2010.
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Art Deco has enemies?

Art Deco at its most successful and its strongest critics sit comfortably side by side in the exhibition of José Berardo’s large collection of furniture and objects that we can see at the Berardo Museum in Lisbon’s Praça do Império. This very interesting exhibit, titled Art Deco and its enemies, showcases objects made by famous designers in the 20s and later, restored to the context of the 1925 Exposition in Paris. Visit it until September 20 and learn some more on that current that is so often misunderstood.
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