With this course, given at the end of 2009, the Design History Foundation began its educational and promotional activities in the knowledge of the most significant phenomena in design from a rigorous and heterodox perspective, with the aim of exploring international and local contexts.
In the 1920s and 1930s, the moralising discourse of modernism and its historians tended to leave aside the eclectic, illuminating modernity of Art Deco. Despite frivolous and glamorous aspects, or perhaps because of them, Art Deco is surely the final great decorative arts movement in history, and one of the more original legacies of the last century. It was a style that nowadays is the subject of highly rigorous studies, giving rise to exhibitions, publications and collections.
