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 ...

A decorative style of bold geometric shapes and bright colours, it encompassed furniture, textiles, ceramics, sculpture and architecture. The term ‘Arts Decoratifs’ (later shortened to Art Deco in the ...

The term "art deco" is being applied too liberally to architecture built under colonialism, writes Edward Denison as part of our Art Deco Centenary series. Long cast as the bastard child of ...

An Art Deco icon, a woman dandy and Madonna’s favourite painter. Tamara de Lempicka’s legacy is very much alive, trespassing the borders of art history and philosophy, boldly entering into fashion, ...

To a first-time visitor, Mumbai presents itself as a kaleidoscope of sensory overload. Architecturally, the peninsula city is host to numerous styles. Mumbai's architectural identity emerges from ...

René Lalique was a seminal French glass designer known for his Art Nouveau and Art Deco perfume bottles, chandeliers, vases, and jewelry. Widely revered and influential in the decorative arts, Lalique ...

There is a certain striking feel and highly distinctive look to the paintings of Tamara de Lempicka. Sloe-eyed (mostly) women dressed in the finery of the day (or, in other cases, completely nude ...