By: Virginia Gunn
Contrary to the widespread belief that Americans were late in adopting “art deco” styles, a survey of popular American needlework, fashion, and decorating magazines published between 1900 and 1940 reveals that these European fashion and design trends were rather quickly, and first, incorporated into both clothing and furnishings for the most intimate room of the house – the bedroom. After 1910 American women began using “colonial revival” as a strategy for embracing “moderne” ideas,
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