Editing Art Deco (section)

===Pre-World War I European styles===
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File:George Barbier (1882-1932), Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950), 1913 1.jpg|[[Ballets Russes]] influences – Drawing of the dancer [[Vaslav Nijinsky]], by [[Paris]] fashion artist [[Georges Barbier]] (1913)
File:Chest of drawers, by Jacques Dubois, 1750-1755 - Waddesdon Manor - Buckinghamshire, England - DSC07774.jpg|[[Rococo]] – Chest of drawers, by [[Jacques Dubois]] (1750–1755), various wood types and gilt bronze mounts, [[Waddesdon Manor]], Buckinghamshire, UK
File:Paul Iribe, cassettiera, parigi 1919 ca.jpg|Rococo influences – Commode, by Paul Iribarne Garay ({{circa|1912}}), mahogany and tulip wood frame, slate top, green-tinted shagreen upholstery, ebony knobs, base and garlands, [[Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris|Museum of Decorative Arts]], Paris
File:Immeuble 21ter Boulevard Diderot - Paris XII (FR75) - 2023-07-25 - 2.jpg|[[Beaux Arts architecture]] – [[Boulevard Diderot]] no. 21, Paris, unknown architect ({{circa|1910}})
File:Avenue de Versailles immeuble Paul Delaroche 1928.jpg|Beaux Arts influences – [[Avenue de Versailles]] no. 70–72, Paris, "Modern" decor in an established typology, designed by [[Paul Delaplace]] and sculpted by [[Jean Boucher (artist)|Jean Boucher]] (1928)
File:Corner table by Jean-Francois-Therese Chalgrin, 1770 - Corcoran Gallery of Art - DSC01284.JPG|[[Louis XVI style]] – Corner table, by [[Jean-Francois-Therese Chalgrin]] (1770), gilded wood, [[Corcoran Gallery of Art]], Washington, D.C.
File:Art Deco dressing table (1919-20).jpg|Louis XVI style influences – Dressing table and chair set, by [[Paul Follot]] (1919), marble and wood encrusted, lacquered and gilded, {{lang|fr|[[Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris]]|italic=no}}
File:Mercury Pajou Louvre RF1624.jpg|[[Neoclassicism]] – ''Mercury'' or ''The Trade'', by [[Augustin Pajou]] (1780), marble, [[Louvre]], Paris
File:Rockefeller Center MAM.JPG|Neoclassical influences – ''[[Prometheus (Manship)|Prometheus]]'', a stylised Art Deco update of classical sculpture, by [[Paul Manship]] (1936), gilded bronze, [[Rockefeller Center]], New York City
File:Hôtel Guimard 2019.jpg|[[Art Nouveau]] – [[Hôtel Guimard (Art Nouveau)|Hôtel Guimard]] ([[Avenue Mozart]] no. 122), Paris, by [[Hector Guimard]] (1909)
File:Avenue Montaigne (47128639262).jpg|Art Nouveau influences – Sinuous curves on the façade of [[Avenue Montaigne]] no. 26, Paris, by [[Louis Duhayon]] and [[Marcel Julien]] (1937)<ref name="pss-archi_eu">{{cite web|url=https://www.pss-archi.eu/immeubles/FR-75056-27646.html|website=pss-archi.eu|title=26, avenue Montaigne|access-date=27 September 2023}}</ref>
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Art Deco was not a single style, but a collection of different and sometimes contradictory styles. In architecture, Art Deco was the successor to (and reaction against) Art Nouveau, a style which flourished in Europe between 1895 and 1900, and coexisted with the [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] and [[Neoclassical architecture|neoclassical]] that were predominant in European and American architecture. In 1905 [[Eugène Grasset]] wrote and published ''Méthode de Composition Ornementale, Éléments Rectilignes,''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k6109619d |first=Eugène|last=Grasset |title=Méthode de composition ornementale, Éléments rectilignes|date=1905|publisher=Librarie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, Paris|language=fr |via=Gallica |access-date=18 December 2012}}</ref> in which he systematically explored the decorative (ornamental) aspects of geometric elements, forms, motifs and their variations, in contrast with (and as a departure from) the undulating Art Nouveau style of [[Hector Guimard]], so popular in Paris a few years earlier. Grasset stressed the principle that various simple geometric shapes like triangles and squares are the basis of all compositional arrangements. The reinforced-concrete buildings of Auguste Perret and Henri Sauvage, and particularly the [[Théâtre des Champs-Élysées]], offered a new form of construction and decoration which was copied worldwide.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/mthodedecomposit01gras |first=Eugène|last=Grasset|title=Méthode de composition ornementale|language=fr |year=1905|publication-date=10 March 2001 |access-date=18 December 2012}}</ref>