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Art Deco Britain: Buildings of the interwar years Wells Coates Featuring the English Heritage blueHardback, 272 pages By Elain Harwood for C20 The definitive guide to Art Deco buildings in Britain. The perennially popular style of Art Deco influenced architecture and design all over the world in the 1920s and 1930s from elegant Parisian theatres to glamorous Manhattan skyscrapers. The style was also adopted by British architects, but, until now, there has been little that really explains the what, where and how of Art Deco buildings in Britain. In