The arts décoratifs movement of the 1920s and 1930s, better known as Art Deco, extended far beyond the realms of traditional art by celebrating consumer goods, architecture, technology, and a general ...
In Paris in 1925, the French government initiated its ambitious International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts with one specific goal – to showcase and celebrate the excellence of ...
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 — ...
Elephant armchairs (around 1926) by the French Art Deco furniture-maker and interior designer Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, from Paris-based Galerie Marcilhac, which is showing at Salon Art + Design in New ...
What does an “Art Deco Buddhist temple” look like? The phrase is nearly nonsensical; it’s hard to imagine a Buddhist temple built in the Art Deco style, the early-twentieth-century Western aesthetic ...
A centenary celebration of Art Deco style recalls an age of opulence. By Jillian Rayfield Reporting from Paris On the same October day that the Louvre Museum reopened in Paris after a brazen theft of ...