F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby is considered one of the great American novels.
This summer, a new film version is being released, and Art Deco and styles from the Roaring Twenties is experiencing a resurgence.
Design Inspiration… Quotes from The Great Gatsby
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"I noticed that she wore her evening-dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes..." "I was flattered to go places with her, because she was a golf champion, and every one knew her name."~ Nick Carraway on Jordan Baker ~ |
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"On a chance we tried an important-looking door, and walked into a high Gothic library, paneled with carved English oak, and probably transported complete from some ruin overseas. A stout, middle-aged man, with enormous owl-eyed spectacles, was sitting somewhat drunk on the edge of a great table, staring with unsteady concentration at the shelves of books." |
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"Suddenly one of the gypsies, in trembling opal, seizes a cocktail out of the air, dumps it down for courage and, moving her hands like Frisco , dances out alone on the canvas platform. A momentary hush; the orchestra leader varies his rhythm obligingly for her, and there is a burst of chatter as the erroneous news goes around that she is Gilda Gray's understudy from the 'Follies.' The party has begun." |
| "Finally we came to Gatsby's own apartment, a bedroom and a bath, and an Adam study , where we sat down and drank a glass of some Chartreuse he took from a cupboard in the wall. His bedroom was the simplest room of all - except where the dresser was garnished with a toilet set of pure dull gold. Daisy took the brush with delight, and smoothed her hair, whereupon Gatsby sat down and shaded his eyes and began to laugh." |  |
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