By the 1920s the effects of cubist painting were seen in advertising and product designs. Coco Chanel used cubist colors and forms in creating women's fashions, which she adorned with Art Deco jewelry. A frican sculpture and ancient Egyptian and Southwest American Indian arts all had their influence on Art Deco in this decade, as did Archaic Greek art. With the influence of the Bauhaus and the International Style after 1925, Art Deco arrived at a final development that reflected the industrial age, thus achieving a reconciliation of the arts and machine production that had troubled artists and designers since the Industrial Revolution began. E. M. Plunkettm, Art Historian.
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