Art Deco found a home in Glasgow as the country embraced the fresh optimism of clean lines and elegance. From glamourous super cinemas to white suburban villas, lidos and power stations, Scotland ...

Betty Joel was one of the UK's most prolific designers, furniture makers and businesswomen during the 1920s and 30s. As part of our Art Deco Centenary series, her great-nephew Clive Stewart ...

Art Deco Scotland: Design and Architecture in the Jazz Age, by Bruce Peter, Professor of Design History at the Glasgow School of Art, has been published by Historic Environment Scotland and ...

Betty Joel was one of the UK's most successful designers and furniture makers during the 1920s and 30s. As part of our Art Deco Centenary series, her great-nephew Clive Stewart-Lockhart picks his ...

Our Art Deco Centenary series rounds off where it began, with the 1925 exposition in Paris. We take a look at 10 stand-out structures built for the landmark event, which catapulted art deco onto ...

With the population boom followed a lot of Spanish Colonial and Victorian designs. But the Art Deco explosion between 1925 and 1940 wasn’t lost on this region. “You can find a lot of Art Deco here if ...

This year, we’re going back in time – 100 years, to be precise, says Rachel Loos, who looks at the origins of Art Deco as a vision for living a modern, glamorous life in the 1920s, and how it ...

Art Deco is a design movement that emerged in the 1920s and 1930s, defined by bold geometry, rich colors, and lavish ornamentation. Blending influences from Cubism, Futurism, Bauhaus, and ancient ...

With the population boom followed a lot of Spanish Colonial and Victorian designs. But the Art Deco explosion between 1925 and 1940 wasn’t lost on this region.

Shanghai art deco in photo By Wang Jie (Shanghai Daily) Updated: 2006-12-29 09:04. Shanghai was-and still is-a treasure trove of art-deco buildings, concentrated in the former French Concession ...

The 1,046-foot-tall Chrysler Building, completed in May of 1930, was the pinnacle of both the then-unnamed Art Deco period and the skyscraper boom that rapidly transformed New York City’s skyline.

Evolution in Art: as illustrated by the Life-histories of Designs. By Alfred C. Haddon, Professor of Zoology, Royal College of Science, Dublin. Pp. xviii + 364.