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Art Deco as a visual arts movement first appeared in France at the eve of the Great War and continued to find favour some time into the 1930s, reaching its zenith and achieving Hollywood clout in Fritz Lang’s seminal film, Metropolis.

Fast forward almost a century later, along an oak tree-lined street in a sleepy pocket of Kew. A sextet of 1930s Art Deco cottages, snuggling

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