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 ...

An Art Deco living room has enduring appeal – when designed and executed well, this style of space offers a balance of ...

Art Deco architecture gave them voice. In the mid-1930s, Art Deco had already commenced full-blown on the Oval Maidan buildings, displaying all the characteristics of the style from flying ...

Art deco expresses America's best and worst of times: the exuberant Jazz Age and the Great Depression. Miami Beach's Art Deco District is the largest and best known art deco wonderland ...

Hinduism also teaches that within each person is the spirit of the sacred lotus. Flower power! We now associate mistletoe with the magic of Christmas, but its symbolism dates back to the days of ...

If it were not for the Miami Beach Preservation League, a group committed to saving Greater Miami's architectural treasures, there would be no Art Deco District (officially, the Miami Beach Art ...

Today the sacred art form is most alive in Thailand, and to a lesser extent in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar. Unlike in Japan, where a rich tattoo tradition is still struggling to shake off its ...

Hawke's Bay's popular Art Deco Festival is returning for 2025 with some new events and old favourites. Photo / Paul Taylor Tickets are now on sale for the popular festival, which will run 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 ...

scribing a line between sacred and profane, life and death. We are doused, dunked, dipped, sprinkled—and blessings flow, deep and wide as the River Jordan of Scripture, wondrous as the spring at ...

By Holland Cotter Lisa Schiff acknowledges stealing millions from major collectors who trusted her to buy them fashionable art. By Sarah Maslin Nir His Brutalist buildings, praised during the ...

Dawn hasn’t broken yet as I begin speaking with Alejandro “Alex” Garcia and Salvador “Sal” Samano from Thee Sacred Souls, who are in London on the last day of the band’s European tour.