Art Deco is a design movement popular in the 1920s ... were used for striking wood furniture and flooring, while inlaid wood in Deco patterns added high-end details. Stones like marble and ...

Art deco expresses America's best and worst ... sunbursts and its three-story lobby with red Moroccan walls and inlaid wood elevator doors. The 1931 Waldorf Astoria is another famed example.