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What is art deco? Art deco was an art form that took its name from the trailblazing Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modern of 1925. The design style emulated internationally from that event, and soon was found in all...

Exhibition dates: 14th June – 15th September 2013 . OMG, OMG, OMG a bumper posting of car porn! Some of these are just ravishing (my favourite is the Hispano-Suiza H6B Dubonnet “Xenia” Coupe, 1938) and the elegant...

Art Deco was arguably the most glamorous and exciting design movement of the 20th century. Loosely spanning the period 1920 to 1940, the name Art Deco was not applied until the 1960s, when the movement was aligned with the Paris Exhibition of 1925 or...

(Image: Teacher Traveler; Art Deco architecture in Napier, New Zealand) The 1920s was a time of unparalleled optimism in the Western world. The war was over, the economy was booming, the Great Depression was still over the horizon and jazz, machinery...

Some of the most stylish interiors feature a harmonising mix of the old and the new in their designs. Indeed, more recently it has become fashionable for contemporary houses to revisit 1920’s art deco designs. Art deco design was heavily influenced...