It was at a landmark architecture exhibition in Paris in 1925 that the Art Deco aesthetic first exploded on the scene. In the 100 years since, the glamorous building style - evocative of neon-lit jazz ...

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The year 1925 marked the birth of Art Deco — a design movement defined by dual-toned facades, rounded corners, nautical details like porthole windows and ship deck-style balconies, and motifs such as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lately, in my personal corner of the internet, I have been showered in imagery of pared-back wood-paneled rooms, and thick cast glass and black lacquer set against ecru rugs and elegant gray silks, ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the International Exhibition of Modern and Industrial Arts in Paris — the showcase that gave the world Art Deco. The designs and styles on display back then ...

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, ...

What do the Chrysler Building (New York), Palais de Chaillot (Paris), and Christ the Redeemer Statue (Rio de Janeiro) have in common? As bold icons of art deco, they illustrate the far-flung influence ...