The group aimed to bring modern principles of design, such as those promoted in Europe by the Wiener Werkstätte and the Bauhaus, to decorative arts in the United States.
[4] AUDAC was modeled on European decorative arts societies such as the Société des Artistes Décorateurs in France.
[7] The group was well known by the early 1930s when Radio City Music Hall commissioned Donald Deskey and other AUDAC members to design the fabrics, textiles, and furnishings for the interior.
[10] AUDAC placed an ad in a supplement for the magazine Creative Art in March 1930[11] which listed contact information for many of its members and described the mission of the American Union of Decorative Artists and Craftsmen thus: AUDAC stands convinced that contemporary life demands an appropriate setting and that it is the work of the artist of all ages to mould the external world to suit the life of his time.
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