The movement was born during the groundbreaking Paris Exhibition of 1925 as a luxurious response to the success of the German ...

Art Deco—which can be described as more of a style than a time period—blends a modern sensibility with earlier elements of Cubism, Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau. Although it has its roots in the ...

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A figural Art Deco work with a reclining, sleeping female figure in bed, a Spaniel dog asleep at the foot, and a figural allegorical dream sequence background with equestrian knight on horseback and ...

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 — ...

There are plenty of Art Deco pieces out there, but according to Benoist F. Drut of NYC’s Maison Gerard, savvy collectors covet works actually shown at the 1925 exhibition that gave the movement its ...

On a construction site across from the city's twin towers, cranes rise above closed-off sidewalks, marking the Gratte-Ciel Downtown Project, which will double Villeurbanne's downtown area without ...

The French capital’s Museum of Decorative Arts devotes an extravagant exhibition to the design movement that takes its name ...

A quintessential architectural and design style marked by stylized geometric shapes, clean lines and opulent materials, Art Deco is instantly recognizable the world over. It was first introduced in ...

It’s 1925. It’s a new age, all the lines on the economic graphs are going up, and surely no future conflict could ever be as bad as what Europe had just gone through — they didn’t call it “the Great ...

This writer recalls the distinct impact of seeing the grey stone friezes of the New India Assurance Building in Fort for the first time. Imposing, sombre, and yet captivating. Smiti Kanodia, founder ...

Financier Lee Munder drove by the West Palm Beach home and admired it on a regular basis. Then he saw the previous owner putting a “for sale” sign out.