The living rooms Poirot solved his cases in. The Great Gatsby. The gilded dining room of London's Claridge's Hotel. All of these are examples of Art Deco interior design, and all of them have an ...

Art Deco—which can be described as more of a style than a time period—blends a modern sensibility with earlier elements of Cubism, Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau. Although it has its roots in the ...

Jennifer's reading corner is breathtakingly magical, but it's the bespoke stained glass window that truly makes the room ...

Almost 50 years after receiving original bedroom pieces designed by once-famed architect Joseph Urban, the Cincinnati Art Museum finally puts them on display. Way back in 1973, the Cincinnati Art ...

Just walking through the heavy wood and glass revolving doors into the State Library of Pennsylvania is a step back in time. The Art Deco theme is immediately recognizable in the expansive marble ...

A recent newspaper headline that read “Less lavish, more modern, art deco is returning” caught my attention and had me thinking back to a time growing up in New York City and the wonder and pride I ...

A new book reconstructs a unique teen bedroom from 1929 and resurrects Joseph Urban’s far-reaching but now-forgotten influence on modern American design. Joseph Urban, Bedroom for Elaine Wormser, ...

The Georgian Hotel has had many lives. After it opened in 1933 as the Georgian Hotel by female hotelier Rosamond Borde, it became a stomping ground for major Hollywood stars such as Marilyn Monroe, ...

Every other week The Downtown Doodler draws an architectural detail of a building in New York City, an an “archi-doodle.” This week’s design is a combination of elements of different ornamental ...

Of all the materials associated with art deco style (lacquer, lustrous metals, glass, hardwood) concrete surely isn’t one of them. But it is thanks to this decidedly unglamorous composite that so much ...