Sentence examples for moderne movement from inspiring English sources

Art Deco, also called style moderne, movement in the decorative arts and architecture that originated in the 1920s and developed into a major style in western Europe and the United States during the 1930s.

"We all know about the famous Neutra and Schindler houses in California," said Theodore Prudon, president of Docomomo US, an organization dedicated to conserving and documenting the modern movement in architecture, "but there aren't many modern houses on the East Coast that are truly modern, not Moderne".

"Edvard Munch: L'Oeil Moderne" (The Modern Eye) continues through Jan . 9at the Pompidou Center.

The Paris Exhibition of 1925 introduced a style then known as Modern or Art Moderne.

The apparent uniformity is deceptive, though, and the district in fact showcases a litany of design movements, taking in streamline moderne, stripped classical, depression moderne, de Stijl and Bauhaus.

The moderne styling of the drive collided serendipitously with the hulking retaining walls.

It has been modernized into gwo ka moderne, though traditional rural performances (lewoz) are still common.

It was America's first popular modern style, although the terms Art Moderne or Streamlined Moderne are preferred by many in the decorative arts.

Ms. Willis watched from the shade in front of her 1937 Streamline Moderne stucco house.

The modern pentathlon is governed by the Union Internationale du Pentathlon Moderne et Biathlon.

The show at the Musée d'Art Moderne, "Decorum: Carpets and Tapestries by artists," which runs until Feb. 9, celebrates a "Neo-Craft" movement in which established and emerging artists are reclaiming fine-art status for materials and practices typically classified as craft or decorative arts.