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 ...

MILAN — An emblem of the Roaring ’20s, Art Deco remains one of the most revolutionary design movements of all time. Distinguished for its engine-inspired motifs like zigzag and sunrays and use ...

The term "art deco" is being applied too liberally to architecture built under colonialism, writes Edward Denison as part of our Art Deco Centenary series. Long cast as the bastard child of ...

Glamour and exuberance are the terms perhaps most often ascribed to the Art Deco era, which has become synonymous with the roaring 1920s. And that, of course, extends to iconic Art Deco furniture ...

His aesthetic principles, however, are nothing new. In 2021 he posted “I love Art Deco” on Twitter; in July 2023, nine months after he acquired the social-media platform, he gave it a ...

Art Deco revelled in the here and now, rejecting all that came before it. It appropriated imagery from all over the world like a magpie, from Tutankhamen’s sarcophagus to the art of the Aztecs ...

As the world enjoys the centennial of the 1925 Paris Exposition, the landmark event that solidified Art Deco as a global movement, the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles will host the city’s only ...

When the descriptor “art deco” is used in an architectural context, images of gilded entrances, decorative metal flourishes, and sleek expressions come to mind. Think of the Empire State ...

The story of Art Deco architecture begins on April 28, 1925, when one of the most important exhibitions in the history of modern design and applied arts threw open its doors. The Exposition ...