Art Deco is the visual language of the Jazz Age — an exuberant fusion of machine-age streamlining and ancient geometric ornament that dominated architecture, fashion, and graphic design from the mid-1920s through the late 1930s. Its vocabulary of sunburst rays, stepped ziggurats, and chevron patterns adorned everything from the Chrysler Building's lobby to Cassandre's ocean liner posters.

This design system distills that vocabulary into digital tokens: warm gold accents against deep black grounds, high-contrast geometric serifs, bilateral symmetry, and the polished metallic sheen of a Manhattan elevator door rendered in CSS.