Our Art Deco Centenary series will delve into the style throughout March but to help start us off, this five-minute guide covers all the basics. Art deco refers to a design style that was ...

In the first of our Art Deco Centenary profiles ... it was Erté who designed its costumes. He died in Paris later that year, aged 97. The top illustration is by Vesa Sammalisto.

Jacques Ruhlmann produced some of art deco's most extravagant designs. For our Art Deco Centenary series, we profile the ...

They glowed like shiny pearls plucked from exotic climes, gleaming through the smoke and haze of crowded cities built on industrial dirt and grime.

The first art-deco building in Paris, the Théâtre des Champs-Élysée, opened in 1913, while the artist Erté had been producing his pioneering art deco illustrations since 1912.

Explore Tamara de Lempicka's bold Art Deco works at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, featuring 92 paintings and drawings.

The panther has stalked its way through almost the entirety of Cartier’s existence. We have very early drawings of panthers ...

If you love history, culture, fashion and food, keep this list handy for your next trip to the English capital.

Before her transition, Elbe painted Post-Impressionistic landscapes in soft palettes and often posed for her wife’s paintings, who was also an accomplished painter and illustrator in the Art Deco ...

In the early 20th century, Cartier creations adorned everyone from monarchs and superstar actresses, to American ‘Dollar ...