International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts Palais and Petit Palais, and on both banks of the Seine. There were 15,000 exhibitors from twenty different countries, and it was visited by sixteen million people during its seven-month run. The "Style Moderne" presented at the Exposition later became known as "Art Deco", after the name of the Exposition. The idea for an exhibition entirely devoted the decorative arts originally came from the Société des Artistes Décorateurs (The Society of Decorative Artists), a group founded in 1901 which included both established artists, including Eugene Grasset and Hector Guimard, as well as younger artists including Francis Jourdain, Maurice Dufrêne, Paul
International Committee of the Decorative Laminates Industry Belgium, France and Germany. Over the course of the following years associations from Austria, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and Spain also joined. Since 1999 the ICDLI has been an association established under Belgian law and has had its official Head Office in Brussels. In 2000 the status of the ICDLI was changed from that of an umbrella association to an association with individual member companies. The ICDLI with its Technical, Public Relations and Economic Commissions performs the following tasks: International Committee of the Decorative Laminates Industry The International Committee of the Decorative Laminates Industry aisbl (ICDLI) is an