>>82913801Art Deco, an architectual style people love and wish would come back, was like the definition of over-complicated bullshit
>purposely used insanely expensive building materials for the time so everything would run over budget (who uses steel and glass as the PRIMARY materials in construction? Crazy people, that's who)>built to last, but to such an extreme that it borders on impractability in the event you ever actually needed to tear the building down>overly elaborate artworks that were incredibly time and cost-consumingThey exist for no reason other than to be a monument to wealth and power, and people love it.