“Art Deco may best be described as a popular form of modernism. If we think of modern architecture in its most rigorous form as having stripped away ornament and replaced it with glass-and-steel ...

Art Deco architecture: the origins and characteristics. In 1925, however, the term 'Art Deco' did not exist. Its inaugural use appeared in the 1960s when the very first major exhibition delving into ...

While the Stanford Theatre is recognized as a landmark by the Art Deco Society of California, some purists may have a nit to ...

Do you live in an art deco house? Although the greatest concentration of art deco architecture in the nation is in south Miami Beach (which has been designated a national historic district), traces… ...

You can see the sleek, intricate designs of Art Deco style at these iconic buildings in downtown and midtown Kansas City, dating back to the 1920s and 30s. This story was first published in KCUR's ...

The term "Art Deco" was coined following the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, or World's Fair, in Paris.News of the nascent movement spread swiftly ...

Chambellan was working on architecture that was initially called the French Modern Style, or Zig-Zag Moderne. The style eventually came to be called by the name most of us know: Art Deco. the ...

Art Deco in Montreal also can be called the Style Camillien Houde, in honor of its biggest patron, the city’s mayor who commissioned many public buildings during the 1930s to provide jobs during ...

Historically, Art Deco, which is short for arts décoratifs, started in France in the early 1900s. “But it really flourished in America in the ’20s and ’30s,” Moon explains.