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A decorative style in painting, glass, pottery, silverware, furniture, architecture and the like, at its height in the 1930s. It is distinguished by bold colours, geometrical shapes, stylized natural forms and symmetrical designs. The name comes from French art décoratif, 'decorative art', itself from the Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes held in Paris in 1925 as the first major international exhibition of decorative art since the First World War.