The term ‘Arts Decoratifs’ (later shortened to Art Deco in the 1960s) was coined after the Exposition Internationale des ... The style spread across Europe to the United States and Britain, where it ...

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

The Art Deco-style wallpaper in the bathroom. PHOTO ... including a piece featuring the Chinese character yue, meaning joy, which also forms part of the word for music (yin yue) – a reminder that ...

Her visual style came to epitomize art deco (more a design movement that borrowed ... order” — Lempicka blended the distilled, tubular forms of artists like Fernand Léger and Aristide Maillol ...