The movement was born during the groundbreaking Paris Exhibition of 1925 as a luxurious response to the success of the German Bauhaus. One hundred years later, its prices keep breaking records ...
Art Deco wasn’t invented at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, but it was announced to the world there. In this photograph taken on October 25, ...
Our Art Deco Centenary series will delve into the style throughout March but to help start us off, this five-minute guide covers all the basics. Art deco refers to a design style that was particularly ...
To close out the anniversary celebration of its 20th year, the Frist Art Museum will take an in-depth look back at the era of its own building with the exhibition “American Art Deco: Designing for the ...
From a gold-topped tower in Chicago to a Nile-side palace in Cairo, these 20 hotels don’t put art deco behind the glass — they put you inside it. The stainless-steel “Savoy” sign glows above the ...
The world Hollywood movies projected on-screen in the mid-to late 1920s and throughout the 1930s was of lavish, glamorous rooms (many bordering on the fantastic), of sharply defined geometric designs ...
Art deco, a glamorous architectural style from the Roaring Twenties, thrives in cities like Miami, Brussels, and Napier. With sleek designs and vibrant details, these art deco destinations showcase ...
What makes a building an Art Deco artefact? Which Indian city has the second-largest number of Art Deco buildings in the world? These questions have become particularly prescient in the centenary year ...