An art style associated with the 1920’s, art deco is a stylization of geometry and industry. It’s used in contrast to the Native American stylings, especially in The Lobby.
Used in this way, it becomes a visual contrast of culture and influence where the patterns represent the differing groups of people
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Color Palette Repetition
The red and yellow of the art deco sun imagery in the floor tile and the red couch and yellow curtains of the Gold Room entrance.
Patterns
The visual duality of the art deco styling and the Native American styling.
The plethora of juxtapositions between "Eurocentric" designs and representations of space and the Indigenous representations speak to American History and its colonialist mindset. The art deco and the Native American banding, the Great Mother and the photorealistic spaces.