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Roaring: Art, Fashion, and the Automobile in France, 1918-1939
From April to November 1925, Paris showed the landmark Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes, after which the term Art Déco was coined. As early as in the summer of 1926, the City Art Museum in Saint Louis hosted the exhibition A Selected Collection of Objects from the International Exposition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Art at Paris 1925. Visitors in Saint Louis could discover almost 400 objects, including furniture, textiles, tableware and more. Subsequently, the museum purchased several pieces for the permanent...
