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Though it only had the distinction of being the world’s tallest building for 11 months, the Chrysler Building has remained ...
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100 years of Art Deco
When it burst onto the international scene 100 years ago this week, Art Deco epitomized all that was modern and sophisticated. "Sunday Morning" anchor Jane Pauley reports on a museum exhibition that ...
If we think of modern architecture in its most rigorous form as having stripped away ornament and replaced it wit ...
As the world enjoys the centennial of the 1925 Paris Exposition, the landmark event that solidified Art Deco as a global ...
The landmark art deco Metro Theater on Broadway near West 99th Street first opened during the height of the Great Depression in 1933. It was a Manhattan staple for decades until it fell on tough ...
Kathy Hochul, the State Senate and Steven Spielberg’s foundation. By Annie Aguiar A landmark Art Deco movie theater that closed 20 years ago on Manhattan’s Upper West Side was sold to a ...
An Art Deco house on the Essex seafront with a glamorous Thirties design that could be straight out of an Agatha Christie has come up for sale for £1.5 million. Although it has been updated ...
Buying an apartment in this iconic building, at 10 Gracie Square, was a full-circle moment for financier William Douglass, whose grandfather, Juan Trippe — founder of Pan American World Airways ...
GYPT and Zaks have worked with a team of architects, consultants and other experts to develop the project to the point where, with Heritage Fund approval, the construction phase can begin. It is hoped ...
The curatorial discourse, also starting from the fundamental studies on Art Déco by Rossana Bossaglia, whose centenary of birth falls this year, traces precise space-time coordinates to chronicle this ...
Our Art Deco Centenary series rounds off where it began, with the 1925 exposition in Paris. We take a look at 10 stand-out structures built for the landmark event, which catapulted art deco onto ...