The Deco Diaries

Chronicling the inspiration and creativity of the Art Deco era

Diary Articles

Leonora Carrington - Surrealist Artist

Leonora Carrington - Surrealist Artist

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...

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Marching Band Greenwood Avenue Tulsa

Tulsa and Black Wall Street

Marching Band Greenwood Avenue Tulsa, 1920. January 2022 has been a whirlwind and I have struggled to find the time to sit down, gain inspiration...

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Vita Sackville West - Author and Gardener

Vita Sackville West - Author and Gardener

Deco London is celebrating diversity, with Vita Sackville-West. Born Victoria Sackville-West in 1892, Vita was a novelist, poet, diarist, journalist, and gardener, publishing 13 best-selling novels...

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The Great British Lido Revival

The Great British Lido Revival

Pontypridd Lido, built in 1927 recently restored If you haven’t noticed, the British Lido is having a revival, after years left abandoned (and many demolished) in...

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Artist, designer and performer Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Artist, designer and performer Sophie Taeuber-Arp

Sophie Taeuber-Arp with Dada Head, 1920   Sophie Taeuber-Arp is one of the most important abstract artists and designers of the 1920s and 1930s and...

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Charlotte Perriand, architect and designer

Charlotte Perriand, architect and designer

Charlotte Perriand was a French architect and designer who designed buildings, interiors and furniture.  She is one of the most acclaimed designer to come from the studio...

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Luchita Hurtado - Artist

Luchita Hurtado - Artist

Luchita Hurtado in 2017 in front of a Self-Portrait painted 1950s Luchita Hurtado (1920-2020) was a Venezuelan-born artist whose drawings, paintings, photographs, jewellery and clothing...

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Mumbai's Art Deco Treasures

Mumbai's Art Deco Treasures

Opulent Art Deco doors of the Liberty Cinema in Mumbai Mumbai, the Indian city formerly called Bombay hosts the most Art Deco buildings in Asia,...

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Bauhaus Designer Marianne Brandt

Bauhaus Designer Marianne Brandt

Marianne Brandt was the first woman admitted to the Bauhaus design school metalwork department, in 1923, and the only woman ever to receive a degree...

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