The defining design movement of early 20th-century America, Art Deco led to interiors that are bold, rich, and decadent ...
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, ...
Art deco arrived in 1925 as a provocation — disciplined geometric lines as a rebuke to art nouveau’s soft florals, gleaming metal against hand-carved wood, the machine age muscling into Edwardian ...