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Posted by admin on September 30th, 2011In the 1930s, the fantastic world of film first became the prominent influence on American interior decoration it would continue to be throughout the twentieth century. The decorative styles of the English country house, the Californian Spanish house, and the Landscape In Art Deco interiors of the Jazz era were all through Hollywood set design. The stylized “Modern” look of the 1930s owed much to epics like Metropolis (1927), while the for the Civil War period inspired by Gone with the Wind (1939) also greatly influenced decoration. Later in the century, the sensational Cleopatra (1963) created a in Egyptian motifs, while the futuristic sets of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) helped inspire the distinctive environments of the late 1960s and 1970s. Mail-order catalogs and women’s magazines, while not as as Hollywood, also exerted a strong influence on interior decoration. They featured an expanding diversity of goods and began portraying fashionable interiors.