Not relying solely on brick, concrete, stone and wood like more traditional buildings, Art Deco buildings also used metals like steel and aluminum, terra-cotta, glass, sculpted concrete and even ...

Lee Whiteman of Whiteman Architects explains how the practice is extending and overhauling a ‘dated’ 1920s Art Deco house in south-west London ...

Decorative details wrap around its white-and-black brick facade ... and mechanisation – further cements the building's status as an art deco archtype. Newly emerging steel was used for ...

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 ...

Complicating the question further is the fact that, unlike many other design movements, art deco was never underpinned by an intellectual theory. The elevators in the Chrysler Building are an ...

The Charmont Apartments in Santa Monica allow you to live in a piece of history that's also not far from the beach.