Full article with thanks to: bhg.com/decorating/decorating-style/modern/art-deco-colors-281474979492500 Art Deco style has proved remarkably resilient as design inspiration for literature, fashion and much more. Whether you want to infuse a space with Art Deco-inspired colour or devote your whole house to the period’s palette-focused aesthetics, here are some basics about Art Deco colours. In general, the Art […]
Full article with thanks to: thespruce.com/decorating-in-art-deco-style-1976535 Decorating in the art deco style means embracing a period that was popular in America and Europe during the 1920s and 1930s. It was a stark contrast to the more minimalist, nature-inspired art nouveau that preceded it. Like art nouveau, art deco affected all areas of the decorative arts, […]
Full article with thanks to: www.bhg.com/decorating/decorating-style/modern/art-deco-decorating-ideas-281474979471871 If you look around any city with architecture from the early to mid-1900s, you’ll see signs of Art Deco. Both glamorous and distinctly industrial, Art Deco is cemented in history as an iconic design style. Perhaps its most famous example is the Empire State Building in New York, with […]
Full article with thanks to https://www.artdeco.org/alastair-duncan Art Deco was the last splendidly self-indulgent decorative style, one described lightheartedly by Brian J. R. Blench in the Spring issue of the Art Deco Society of New York’s newsletter in 1985 as “for luxury and leisure, for comfort and conviviality. It is an exciting style and should, like […]
