If you asked a stranger on the street to name an architectural style, Art Deco would undoubtedly be a popular response.

Art Deco is a design movement popular in the 1920s and 1930s that not only influenced architecture and interior design, but also fashion, jewelry and commercial and industrial design.

No architect made a richer mark on San Francisco than Timothy Pflueger, the exuberant master of Moderne whose romantic skyscrapers and movie palaces hum with poetic power, invention and opulent ...

Art Deco, a design movement that borrowed from a mix of styles, like Modernism and Cubism, became popular in the 1920s and found its way onto architecture, clothing and even household items such ...

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 ...

450 Sutter Street is San Francisco’s monument to the Mayan Revival branch of Art Deco. Art Deco draws on a variety of sources including Art Nouveau, Cubism and the American Arts and Crafts Movement.

The shop windows in the lobby, which is shaped in a “T” for Tulsa, are filled with exhibits that tell the story of the Art Deco movement in Tulsa. But it’s the ceiling that draws the eye.

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 ...

The hotel’s magnificent architecture and design has made it a favorite among heads-of-state, celebrities and sports stars. Miami is art deco paradise, and the Biltmore Miami-Coral Gables is a ...

Art Deco architecture turns 100; take our world tour of its lesser-known marvels. Art Deco architecture can be found across the globe, a 20th-century genre that influenced all building scales and ...