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Art Deco websites

Set for the Net has a special interest in Art Deco, both from a business and pleasure point of view. We run the Myott Collectors Club (Art Deco ceramics of the nineteen thirties) for instance and one of our earliest websites was for John Slade from Take Five Fairs, one of the country's leading Art Deco fairs organisers.

Free websites

In some cases we can provide FREE Art Deco themed websites. If you are an Art Deco dealer or researcher then please get in contact with us to see if you qualify for a free website. Please note we may run themed advertising on your website and we will require you to keep the site up to date and to provide articles to ensure the site remains fresh and content rich.

Some of our Art Deco websites...

Art Deco Fairs

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This is a website which we run as a single point of call for the Art Deco community for a calendar of Art Deco fairs. The website is owned by Set for the Net Ltd. and Just Say Net Ltd. and offers FREE advertising to the UK's leading Art Deco fairs organisers including Take Five Fairs, Abbey Fairs, Odeon Fairs, Decofairs, Decorative Fairs, Spirit of the Age, Nelson Events and English Heritage who hold a fair at the famous Eltham Palace. On the home page of the website is a list of all the Art Deco fairs in the country listed in alphabetical order. There are details of the event organisers as well as the actual locations. At these events you will expect to find all sorts of items from the 1920s and 30s as well as retro pieces from the 1970s.

This is an extremely successful and useful website which enjoys almost two thousand unique visitors ever month. This site must be the first port of call for any Art Deco enthusiast. For a search on 'Art Deco Fairs' on Google we have the number one spot! Along with Take Five Fairs website we hold quite a few places on page one of Google. Check out the home page for a screenshot of Google positions.

Doulton4Collectors

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This is one of our FREE Art Deco websites, though Doulton was also produced in the Art Nouveau era too, which preceded the Art Deco age. We have been working closely with Martin Ham who sells items of Doulton stoneware ceramics through his web shop Doulton4Collectors, which we have designed for him and which we host.

We run a marketing plan which has generated a significant increase in visitors and sales. The site gets a healthy visitor volume every month and has created much interest in the world of Doulton due mainly to our high Google rankings. Martin frequently writes articles about Doulton and the artists & designers who made this pottery one of the most prolific in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Find out what Martin Ham and his customers have to say.

Ashtead Potters

The Ashtead Potters website is a great example of what an Art Deco pottery or ceramics research and catalogue website may look like. If you are interested in a particular pottery then please contact us to discuss a FREE website for your hobby.

Ashtead Potters, in Ashtead, Surrey, was set up in 1923 to generate work for ex servicemen. It only lasted for 12 years but its output was very prolific. The pottery employed many eminent designers of the time, producing both modern Art Deco pieces and items influenced by European design but still with a noticibale Deco twist.

Take Five Fairs

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Take Five Fairs is one of our earliest Art Deco based websites. We run and promote the site for fair organiser John Slade who has many years of organising such events. John runs Art Deco fairs at Woking Leisure Centre in Surrey and also at Twickenham Harlequins Rugby Ground. As well as John's regular Art Deco events he also holds flea and collectors markets where modern items, as well as antiques are sold by standing dealers. Once again Woking is the venue with a new venue at Brighton Racecourse.

The Take Five Fairs website is one of most successful sites, with well over three thousand unique visitors every month, who - more importantly - highly targetted individuals looking for the servcies that John provides. Just like the Art Deco Fairs website above, the Take Five Fairs website enjoys high Google ranking as well as high rankings in other serach engines including Yahoo and Bing. The results aren't just for Art Deco related searches but also for searches on flea markets and antique fairs.

Art Deco Potteries

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The Art Deco Potteries website is an Art Deco ceramics resource providing information about the leading potteries of the nineteen twenties and thirties. Some of the potteries include Goldscheider, Poole and Royal Doulton.

This is a great template for someone who likes to research ceramics or other antiques, and it is very easy to upload new items via our Content Management System.

Art Deco Potters

Art Deco Potters

The Art Deco Potters website is another Art Deco ceramics resource providing information about the leading potters of the nineteen twenties and thirties.

Most of you will have heard of the famous Clarice Cliff, who designed brightly coloured ceramics with strong geometric shapes and patterns, but there are many others who played their parts in the development of Art Deco in the pottery industry.

Myott Art Deco Ceramics

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The MyottMart website is another example of what a FREE Art Deco website may look like. Myott Art Deco ceramics were produced by Myott Son & Co. in the nineteen thirties. They come in many shapes and patterns but generally speaking the more colourful and geometric the shape of the item and pattern, the more it is worth.

The MyottMart site - even though it highly specialised - gets over a thousand unique visitors every month. When an item is sold it is moved via the Content management System into a catalogue. This is so the web page is saved and acts to attract more customers in future.

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ABOUT ART DECO

Overlapping with and then following on from the Art Nouveau movement came the Art Deco style of the nineteen twenties and thirties.

With a more geometric and streamlined approach, Deco forged an era with many manufactured goods emulating the styles developed by the artists of the time. Architecture, cinema and music were all affected during this heady age of jazz.

Though difficult to set a particular start for this ‘modern’ trend as it became known, by around 1910 significant advances had been made by major contributors to the new crisp appearance of Art Deco. Though the actual coining of the phrase Art Deco didn't happen until 1966 the consensus is that is derived from the Paris exhibition of 1925, L'exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels. Like Nouveau, Art Deco has its roots in France.