Editing Art Deco (section)

=== Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1910–1913) ===
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File:Théâtre des Champs-Élysées DSC09330.jpg|[[Théâtre des Champs-Élysées]] by [[Auguste Perret]] at 15, avenue Montaigne, [[Paris]] (1910–1913). Reinforced concrete gave architects the ability to create new forms and bigger spaces.
File:"La Danse", bas-relief d'Antoine Bourdelle (Théâtre des Champs Elysées, Paris).jpg|''La Danse'', [[Relief#Low relief or bas-relief|bas-relief]] on the façade of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées by [[Antoine Bourdelle]] (1912)
File:Theatre Champs Elysees 35.jpg|Interior of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, with Bourdelle's bas-reliefs over the stage
File:Plafond du Théâtre des Champs-Élysées à Paris.JPG|Dome of the Theater, with Art Deco rose design by [[Maurice Denis]]
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{{wide image|Antoine Bourdelle, 1910-12, Apollon et sa méditation entourée des 9 muses (The Meditation of Apollon and the Muses), bas-relief, Théâtre des Champs Elysées DSC09313.jpg|1100px| ''Apollon et sa méditation entourée des 9 muses'' (''Apollo and His Meditation Surrounded by the 9 Muses''), bas-relief on the façade of the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées by Bourdelle (1910–1912). This work represents one of the earliest examples of what became known as Art Deco sculpture.}}
The [[Théâtre des Champs-Élysées]] (1910–1913), by [[Auguste Perret]], was the first landmark Art Deco building completed in Paris. Previously, [[reinforced concrete]] had been used only for industrial and apartment buildings, Perret had built the first modern reinforced-concrete apartment building in Paris on rue Benjamin Franklin in 1903–04. [[Henri Sauvage]], another important future Art Deco architect, built another in 1904 at 7, rue Trétaigne (1904). From 1908 to 1910, the 21-year-old Le Corbusier worked as a draftsman in Perret's office, learning the techniques of concrete construction. Perret's building had clean rectangular form, geometric decoration and straight lines, the future trademarks of Art Deco. The décor of the theatre was also revolutionary; the [[façade]] was decorated with [[High-relief|high reliefs]] by [[Antoine Bourdelle]], a dome by [[Maurice Denis]], paintings by [[Édouard Vuillard]], and an Art Deco curtain by [[Ker-Xavier Roussel]]. The theatre became the venue for many of the first performances of the [[Ballets Russes]].<ref name="Bevis Hillier">{{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/styleofcentury1900hill/page/62/mode/2up?q=cubism |first=Bevis |last=Hillier |title=The style of the century, 1900–1980 |publisher=Dutton |location=New York |date=1983 |pages=62, 67, 70}}</ref> Perret and Sauvage became the leading Art Deco architects in Paris in the 1920s.<ref>{{cite book |first=Peter |last=Collins |title=Concrete: The Vision of a New Architecture |location=New York |publisher=Horizon Press |date=1959}}</ref>{{Sfn|Poisson|2009|pages=318–319}}