Is Art Deco antique or vintage?

Original Art Deco furniture is now crossing into antique territory, because the trade generally calls a piece antique once it is at least 100 years old, and the movement's 1920s work has reached that mark. Furniture from the 1930s is right on the threshold, technically still vintage by the strict hundred-year rule until each year ticks over. Vintage usually covers anything roughly 20 to 99 years old, so the many Deco-revival pieces made from the 1960s through the 1980s are vintage rather than antique. Anything made today in the Deco idiom is a reproduction or simply new furniture in the style, no matter how convincing. The distinction matters mostly for pricing and provenance, not for how a piece looks in your home. A well-made new Deco console can serve a room exactly as an antique one does, without the fragility that century-old veneer often brings.

AURA sits in the new-in-the-style category by design. Our art deco furniture gives you the geometry and glamour of the period with modern construction, so you get the look without babysitting fragile veneer.