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Today's page looks at New York's Chrysler Building, one of the world's mostbeautiful and famous skyscrapers.By the 1920s, the automobile was an indispensable part of American life...

The glamorous look marked skylines from New York to Shanghai and streamlined everything from film and fashion to jewelry and automobiles. Art Deco was the name given, long after the fact, to the brazenly commercial, streamlined style that emerged in Europe, primarily Paris, prior to World War I. Spreading around the globe, it dominated architecture and decorative arts during the 1920s and '30s. Whereas worshipers of Art Nouveau—the previous stylistic rage—were obsessed with nature and decadent symbolism and filled their designs with arabesques, whiplash curves and tendrils, Art Deco designers embraced machinery and power. Using modern materials such as plastic and chrome, opulent fabrics and precious gems, their designs were replete with geometric patterns-circles, zigzags, squares—classical motifs, bright colors and just about anything that hinted of speed. There is pizzazz and energy in Art Deco, as well as glamour and luxury. By the end of World War II, Art Deco had come to be seen as too

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