Since it appeared on the scene in the early 20th century, Art Deco design has never really gone out of style. Sure, the glamorous aesthetic may have fallen out of favor during the early aughts (when ...
As the saying goes, everything old is new again. While one could argue that Art Deco has long remained influential, a century after the publication of The Great Gatsby and the 1925 French art fair ...
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 ...
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PARIS — More than a century after its birth, Art Deco is once again having a moment. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris is celebrating the seminal design movement of the Roaring 1920s with a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
A view of Grand Central Station and the Chrysler Building at night (photo by Jill Scarson of J. Scarson Photography, via Wikimedia Commons) For sale: a 1,046-foot-tall, 77-story building with a ...
Deriving from a Parisian design fair 100 years ago, "Art Deco" rose up out of the ashes of World War One, bringing confidence, prosperity, very big parties and new, instantly recognisable bold ...
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 Building or ...