The style was properly introduced to the world ... while the artist Erté had been producing his pioneering art deco illustrations since 1912. But early art deco was appearing elsewhere around ...

They glowed like shiny pearls plucked from exotic climes, gleaming through the smoke and haze of crowded cities built on industrial dirt and grime.

While the style of art deco filtered down to the most everyday ... exotic dancer Mata Hari in the 1913 ballet Le Minaret. The illustrations he produced in this period were enough to garner the ...