Art Deco Scotland - Design And Architecture In The Jazz Age<br /><br />The Glasgow School of Art<br />164 Renfrew Street<br />Glasgow G3 6RQ<br /><br />Art Deco Scotland: Design and Architecture in the Jazz Age is an exhibition of images,<br />ephemera, a film and textual interpretation across nine themes through which the Art Deco<br />style appeared during the inter-war period in Scotland. The exhibition will run in the Reid<br />Gallery Corridor at The Glasgow School of Art from 5th till 28th April, and is part<br />of Glasgow 850, a year-long citywide programme of exhibitions, festivals and events<br />celebrating Glasgow's 850th anniversary.<br />The exhibition accompanies a major new book of the same title, written by Bruce Peter,<br />Professor of Design History at The Glasgow School of Art, and published by Historic<br />Environment Scotland, which will be launched at a special preview event on Friday 4th<br />April. The exhibition and book are Scotland’s contributions to an international celebration<br />in 2025 of the centenary of the staging in Paris of the Exposition Internationale des Arts<br />Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, a great exhibition of modern decorative arts that much<br />later gave the Art Deco style its name.
