Drawing inspiration from my summer travels in Japan, this month's Deco Diaries delve into how Japan's cultural richness indelibly shaped the late 19th and early...

Dörte Clara Wolff (1907-1996) known as Dodo, was a German-born artist, illustrator, and costume designer, who studied at the prestigious Berlin Academy of Art. Dörte...

The Hoover Building is an iconic Art Deco landmark located in Perivale, London, built to convey a sense of modernity, innovation, and luxury.

Cabaret is based on the autobiographical novel ‘Goodbye to Berlin’ (1939) by Christopher Isherwood, a British-American novelist who lived in Berlin during the 1920s. 

Battersea Power Station   An icon of the London skyline and immortalised in popular culture, the Grade II listed Battersea Power Station reopens to the...

Else Schiaparelli – Fashion Designer   Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli was a surrealist and avant-garde Italian fashion designer born in Rome in 1890.  After moving to...

Poster for the Cabaret Fledermaus by Bertold Loffler 1907  Cabaret Fledermaus opened in Vienna in 1907, co-founded by a group of artists of the Wiener...

Jeanne Lanvin was a French fashion designer born in Paris in 1867.  She trained as a milliner and opened her first shop in 1889.  Dressmaking was also a...

Leonora Carrington was a British-Mexican artist and one of the last surviving participants of the surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington had an interest in...