If we think of modern architecture in its most rigorous form as having stripped away ornament and replaced it wit ...

The patterns and designs common on Art Deco buildings incorporated imagery from many other cultures, and the placement of exterior ornamentation can be found on Mesopotamian and Greek architecture ...

Exhibitions worldwide will commemorate the centennial of Art Deco on Monday — exactly 100 years to the day since the 1925 ...

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

Art Deco design reached its peak in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. The style is known for its expressive ornamentation, colorful materials, and bold silhouettes. Growing out of French ...

The term ‘Arts Decoratifs’ (later shortened to Art Deco in the 1960s) was coined after the Exposition ... There were overlaps with Modernism, with the use of clean lines and minimal decoration, but ...

Its more restrained, sleeker form could be argued to predict the streamlined art deco architecture that would emerge in the 1930s, while others might argue it lacks enough ornamentation to be ...