There’s an Art Deco revival going on. But wait, there’s always an Art Deco revival going on. “It’s easy to explain why the stuff is always popular: It’s gorgeous. The furniture is made of expensive natural materials — glossy wood, ivory, marble — and combines light and dark in a way that became unpopular in the all-white futuristic 1960s. It’s nice to touch, unlike the practical plastic and aluminum of contemporary neo-modernist design. Art Deco satisfies the hipster’s urge for modern shapes and lines -the sleek, the geometric, the angular – and yet is much more luxurious and ornate than the puritanical Bauhaus-inspired mid-century modernism that followed it.”