Art Deco - Major Players and major pieces?

Question

I'm doing a presentation at school on Art Deco (for my Product Design AS level class) and i need some help! I need a few different pieces that are considered the most "important" or things that are really famous. I've done the chrysler building. I also need a few major people in the design movement.

Also, any other info you think i should include that i wouldn't have already stumbled upon?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Hi! You can look at the artwork of Erte and Tamara de Lempicka: http://www.goodart.org/artoftdl.htm
http://www.erte.com/
Cartier's gorgeous Art Deco clocks and jewelry: http://www.mschon.com/1920307.html
The glassware of Lalique and Steuben:
http://www.arthistoryguide.com/travel/travel1.aspx
Walter Dorwin Teague:
http://modernism.com/prod_gen.cfm?srow1=10&load=1015
The sculpture of Paul Manship: http://www.arthistoryguide.com/travel/travel47.aspx
Georg Jensen Silver: http://www.waddingtons.ca/pages/auctions/preview/2005/spring-20th/20th-century-preview.html
And don't forget the brilliant industrial designer Raymond Loewy who brought Art Deco into everyday lives: http://www.io.tudelft.nl/public/vdm/fda/loewy/index.htm
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1759.htm
http://www.raymondloewy.com/exhibit/photos.html
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761577794/Art_Deco.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Deco

Answer 2

In Cincinnati OH, there is a train station that has been converted to museums, that is considered a masterpiece of art deco - Cincinnati Union Terminal:
http://www.cincymuseum.org/explore_our_sites/union_terminal/
The architect was Paul Phillipe Cret.

The exhibition buildings for the Chicago World Fair in 1933-35, the Century of Progress Fair, are also masterpeices of art deco - there is information about the Fair at the Chicago History Museum, http://www.chicagohistory.org/ - there's a web feature:
http://www.chicagohistory.org/history/century.html, and other resources at their site.

Answer 3

Hector Guimard, Eugène Grasset, Raoul Lachenal, Paul Follot, Maurice Dufrene, and Emile Decour.