The Chrysler Building’s spire and stylized bird gargoyles ... in its use of new technologies and materials.” The Art Deco interior was lavish, striking, and elegant but not fussy.

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 ...

On 28 April 1925, the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts opened in Paris. It was a landmark ...

The term ‘Arts Decoratifs’ (later shortened to Art Deco in the 1960s) was coined after the Exposition ... where it became a favourite for building types associated with the modern age, garages, ...

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

The Orleans Parish School Board will auction seven empty school buidlings and vacant lots as it seeks to wipe some of the surplus property from its books amid a financial crisis.

Potential buyers flocked to an Art Deco-inspired home with Streamline ... The husband-and-wife team of architect Kale Wisnia and interior and building designer Catherine Reon of Sacramento-based ...