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'ART DECO', was first introduced at the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes. clean, simple shapes suitable for mass production. It is characterised by its clean simple lines often using geometric shapes and designs. Stained glass windows of this period are often incorrectly described as antique. These windows however can often atract high prices and are a very poular addition to period homes.

'ART NOUVEAU' derives its name from a shop in Paris, La Maison de l'Art Nouveau, which retailed glass and furniture by designers such as Tiffany René Lalique and Emile Gallé.. Art nouveau objects are characterised by sinuous fluid forms often derived from nature. The art Nouveau period is recorded as being between 1890 and 1914, this encompassed the latter years of the reign of Elizabeth the first and through that of Edward the seventh