While new, more austere architectural styles took over—examples include the International Style, Midcentury Modernism, and ...

Deco – characterised by clean lines, bold geometric shapes and jazzy colours – was seen as thrustingly modern. And it had a ...

The 1,046-foot-tall Chrysler Building, completed in May of 1930, was the pinnacle of both the then-unnamed Art Deco period and the skyscraper boom that rapidly transformed New York City’s skyline.

Nearly a century after art deco architecture took over ... Spanish, Mediterranean and Beaux-Arts influences from the era. ... although it went on to be used again in New York City buildings.

New York Art Deco masterpiece the Chrysler Building is up for sale. A price has not been listed, but it sold for $150 million in 2019. Abu Dhabi paid $800 million for the storied building in 2008.

A century after it was formally introduced at the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, in Paris, Art Deco is enjoying a resurgence in decor, fashion and more. A ...

The Chrysler building was completed in 1930. Matt Mawson via Getty Images. The Chrysler Building in New York City is for sale—and despite its iconic status, it could go for cheap.

Continuing our Art Deco Centenary series, we take a look at Paris's Le Louxor movie theatre, a trove of Egyptian revival in the birthplace of cinema. Le Louxor opened in Paris's 10th ...

The 1,046-foot-tall Chrysler Building, completed in May of 1930, was the pinnacle of both the then-unnamed Art Deco period and the skyscraper boom that rapidly transformed New York City’s skyline.