Vintage view: Art Deco

Kya deLongchamps takes a look at early 20th century statuary, particularly, daring Art Deco figures in ivory.

IMAGINE a fabulously beautiful young woman with sharply bobbed hair, spanking the Charleston out in the air with wildly outstretched arms and legs.

The horn of the gramophone rhythmically bounces from her light steps across the floor. You have to love Art Deco figures for their peek-a- boo daring. Their scandalous physical antics celebrated in spelter, fine bronze and ivory still raise a smile. The flapper girl didn’t take off the corset of her mother’s generation, she joyously flung it away.