International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts of the most modernist, was the tower of the Tourism Pavilion by Robert Mallet-Stevens. The tower's sleek lines and lack of ornament were an announcement of the international style that would replace Art Deco. In 1929 Mallet-Stevens led the creation of The French Union of Modern Artists which rebelled against the luxurious decorative styles shown at the Exposition, and, along with Le Corbusier, demanded architecture without ornament, built with inexpensive and mass-produced materials. Just inside the main entrance of the Exposition on the Place de la Concorde was the main promenade of the Exposition, with the pavilions of the major
Duiliu Marcu Duiliu Marcu Duiliu Marcu (1885, Calafat - 9 March 1966, Bucharest) was a Romanian architect. He studied at the Bucharest Superior School of Architecture and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris where he graduated in 1912. His early designs were for houses and at first followed the French classical style, typical for the period. By the early 1920s he was practicing in a stylised version of the Neo-Romanian, that became increasingly refined. The facade of the Timisoara Theatre is one of the outstanding examples of what had become his personal style. By the early 30s, along with most