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 Did you know? Oriental porcelain teapots were highly prized in Europe, because nothing similar could be made until the discovery of porcelain in 1708 in Germany.