Tag: Art Deco

  • Art Deco by the Sea

    This takes us to an interwar Britain where hope and modernism blossomed, changing the face of everything from art and architecture to fashion

  • Eileen Gray: Architect Designer Painter

    Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin 12 October 2013 – 19 January 2014

  • A Creative Transatlantic Tango Shapes the Modern World: Paris/New York, 1925-1940

    Museum of the City of New York 3 October 2008–22 February 2009

  • Rediscovering the Silver Age of Russian Art

    Mir Iskusstva: Russia’s Age of Elegance Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey 25 February-11 June 2006 While the recent, ambitious ‘RUSSIA!’ show at the Guggenheim Museum in New York was a bit thin on the artists associated with the Ballets…

  • Ettore Sottsass: Architect & Designer – book review

    Ronald T Labaco. London & New York: Merrell, 2006. ISBN 18589943205, 9781858943206

  • Elsa Schiaparelli

    Elsa Schiaparelli, the flamboyant fashion designer of the Art Deco period, is renowned for her fabulous eccentricity and innovation. She changed fashion and people’s attitudes to it with her scandalous dresses and colourful personality.

  • Art Deco at V&A

    The Victoria and Albert Museum will open a sequel to its successful Art Nouveau show, held in 2000, with Art Deco 1910-1939 on 27 March through 20 July. Drawing upon the wealth of material from the 1920s, a period that…