
Cedric Gibbons - Visionary Art Deco MGM Art Director
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- What is Cedric Gibbons - Visionary Art Deco MGM Art Director about?
- Cedric Gibbons is considered one of the most influential art production directors in the history of American film. Gibbons led the MGM art department from 1924 to 1956, but his most creative years were 1928-1939, when his movie settings invoked the Art Deco and streamline moderne styles. A Gibbons film’s elegant production designs offered a welcome distraction to Depression-era moviegoers. Gibbons created a new template from which interior designers would create “moderne” spaces for wealthy clients.