Art Deco may be hard to define, but you know it when you see it. Its architecture is at once angular—associated with shapes ...

“Art Deco is many different things to different people, and its evolution is as unique as its expression in architecture, interior design, decorative arts and fashion.” Emerging after World ...

No inter-war architect or artist ever claimed to be working in, or an advocate of, an art deco style, yet today it is used to describe virtually anything that looks vaguely modern from this period.

but World War II and then emergence of modern styles like midcentury pushed Art Deco out of favor. Related: Georgian ...

What Is the Difference Between Art Deco and Art Nouveau? Art Nouveau was the key style from the 1880s up until World War I, and there are definitely some similarities to be drawn between it and ...

In 1962 Cassandre was also awarded the Légion d'Honneur, but his commercial career would never return to the successes it had enjoyed prior to the second world war. A revival of art deco was ...

The architectural jewel in the city’s crown is the Praça do Comércio, which reflects touches of an ancient Mesopotamian-era ...