ABSTRACT
In the late 1960s and 1970s, sign of Art Deco’s further acceptance was the increasingly widespread use of the term Art Deco, the publication of books on Art Deco, and Art Deco exhibitions. To identify and celebrate the Art Deco era, in August of 1976, Capitman and her son John Capitman formed the first Art Deco Society in the world, the Miami Design Preservation League. Art Deco buildings were discovered all across the country, sometimes in the most unlikely places. One could postulate that the popularization of Art Deco by International Coalition of Art Deco Societies members has contributed to its acceptance by academics and architects who are turning to the subject in their own research. Across the Atlantic in London, UK, three years after the world’s first Art Deco society, the Miami Design Preservation League, was formed, the world’s second Art Deco society, the Thirties Society was launched in November 1979 at a party in the Park Lane Hotel.
