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Waterfall is a style of furniture design from the 1930s and 1940s. It was the most prevalent variation on Art Deco furniture during this time, [1] primarily created for the mass market and for bedroom suites. [2] [3]
Monterey Furniture refers to several furniture lines made from 1930 to the mid-1940s in California. Uniquely western, the line derived its character from Spanish and Dutch Colonial styles, California Mission architecture and furnishings, ranch furnishings, and cowboy accoutrements such as might be found in a barn (lariats and branding irons).
Its furniture was exhibited at the 1933 Century of Progress exhibition and at the 1964 New York World's Fair. [10] During the 1930s and 1940s Heywood-Wakefield began producing furniture using sleek designs based on French Art Deco. [11] Long-haul bus companies began focusing on passenger comfort in the 1920s.
Le Corbusier's Furniture is a classic furniture line created by Le Corbusier. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The line was introduced in 1928 at the Salon d‘Autumne in Paris. History
After the war the firm's manufacturing policy was changed. It was decided to increase mechanisation to enable the production of high volumes of well-constructed furniture affordable to a wider range of people. [18] This was hugely successful and Harris Lebus became a household name and the largest furniture manufacturer in the world. [3]
Art Deco, short for the French Arts décoratifs (lit. ' Decorative Arts '), [1] is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design, that first appeared in Paris in the 1910s (just before World War I), [2] and flourished in the United States and Europe during the 1920s to early 1930s.
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Louis XVI furniture is characterized by elegance and neoclassicism, a return to ancient Greek and Roman models. Much of it was designed and made for Queen Marie Antoinette for the new apartments she created in the Palace of Versailles , Palace of Fontainebleau , the Tuileries Palace , and other royal residences.