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Collector Bookstore is a retailer of new books located in Leavenworth, Kansas. We specialize in price guides and reference books for the antiques and collectibles industry. Table of Contents: Page 1 - Page 2
Catalin radios, chromium cocktail shakers, mixmasters, toasters, waffle irons, Fiesta-ware, Depression glass and other manufactured objects have exploded into the arena of high-end collectibles. Indeed, these increasingly sought-after artifacts from the Machine Age have become icons of an important era of American industrial design.
This historic merger of art and industry was inspired, above all, by the luxury goods displayed at the 1925 Paris Exposition, which coined the term ""Art Deco."" American industrial designers embraced the ornate, ""modernistic"" style promoted by the exposition and incorporated elements of the style into their designs for the most humble, utilitarian objects ranging from dime-store rouge pots to kitchen utensils, wallpaper to automobiles.
By the 1990s the catchall phrase ""Dime Store Deco"" was used to differentiate Depression-era, mass-produced Deco from limited production French and European Art Deco and encompassed a much broader range of objects, graphics, and furnishings. Early modernist mass-produced objects once regarded as ""kitsch"" are now examined from a new perspective, and many of these items have moved into higher-priced categories in the marketplace.
Since the 1960s when a fervor for the Deco style first became fashionable with the revival of zany Busby Berkeley 1930s musical extravaganzas like ""Gold Diggers of 1933"" and ""42nd Street Art Deco,"" popular interest in Deco has transcended simple nostalgia for a bygone era to become the classic modern style which continues to influence the popular culture and technology of the 21st century. This book intends to indulge that interest through its comprehensive coverage.
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