Characterized by its embrace of geometric forms and luxurious materials, the style balanced glamor with a modern, streamline style unlike anything that came before it. Today, Art Deco embodies the ...
The Wisteria Table Lamp (Clara Driscoll - Tiffany Studios, c.1905) has a cylindrical shade topped by a dome, so it is a geometric form. But the bottom of the shade has an irregular edge ...
Our Art Deco Centenary series rounds off where it began, with the 1925 exposition in Paris. We take a look at 10 stand-out ...
If you asked a stranger on the street to name an architectural style, Art Deco would undoubtedly be a popular response. Though the heyday of Art Deco ran from the 1920s through the 1930s, the ...
A decorative style of bold geometric shapes and bright colours, it encompassed furniture, textiles, ceramics, sculpture and architecture. The term ‘Arts Decoratifs’ (later shortened to Art Deco in the ...
Southeast London's Eltham Palace is an unusual marriage of medieval and Tudor architecture and the opulent interior design ...