PART I. INTRODUCTION
The style and the age / Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton
The Great War, mass society and 'modernity' / Arthur Marwick
PART II. SOURCES AND ICONOGRAPHY
Egyptomania / Christopher Frayling
Deco sculpture and archaism / Penelope Curtis
Ancient Mexican sources of art deco / Oriana Baddeley
Inspiration from the East / Anna Jackson
Collecting and constructing Africa / Ghislaine Wood
National traditions / Juliette Hibou
Avant-garde sources / Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton
From Pattern to abstraction / Jonathan M. Woodham
The exotic / Ghislaine Wood
PART III. THE PARIS 1925 EXHIBITION
The international exhibition / Charlotte Benton
Paris 1925: consuming modernity / Tag Gronberg
The artist-decorator / Stéphane Laurent
PART IV. THE SPREAD OF DECO
Germany, Austria and the Netherlands / Reino Liefkes
Art deco in Central Europe / David Crowley
'Lovely neoclassical byways': art deco in Scandinavia / Jennifer Hawkins Opie
European glass / Ghislaine Wood
Italian architecture and design / Tim Benton
Conscience and consumption: art deco in Britain / Gillian Naylor
British art deco ceramics / Alun Graves
Art deco architecture / Tim Benton
Art deco fashion / Valerie Mendes
Art deco jewellery / Clare Phillips
Photography and the new vision / Mark Haworth-Booth
Art deco graphic design and typography / Jeremy Aynsley
Art deco bindings ; Art deco and the book jacket / Rowan Watson, Annemarie Riding
PART V. THE DECO WORLD
Travel, transport and art deco / Paul Atterbury
Art deco and Hollywood film / Ghislaine Wood
'The filter of American taste': design in the USA in the 1920s / Wendy Kaplan
American metalwork between the wars / Jeannine Falino
New materials and technologies / Jeffrey L. Meikle
The search for an American design aesthetic: from art deco to streamlining / Nicolas P. Maffei
Art deco in East Asia / Anna Jackson
Indo-deco / Amin Jaffer
Ambiguously modern: art deco in Latin America / Rafael Cardoso
'A growing enthusiasm for modernity': art deco in Australia / Christopher Menz
Art deco in South Africa / Dipti Bhagat
Decline and revival / Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton.