Art Deco style was a main step towards the modern product design, as we know it today. It replaced the nature inspired Art Nouveau and instead drew its inspiration from the age of machinery, the automobile, the moving pictures and the whole industrial progress in general; hence the prevalence of geometric forms in Art Deco items.

Facts of Lavish History is cool — the word cutlery comes from an Old French word coutel, meaning a knife. Nowadays it refers to all types of dining and serving silverware.