The Deco Diaries
Chronicling the inspiration and creativity of the Art Deco era

Diary Articles
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
The Music of Duke Ellington
Continuing our theme celebrating African American culture, we turn our attention to Duke Ellington, arguably the greatest and most charismatic jazz composer and bandleader of the 20th...
Aaron Douglas - Modernist Artist
Aspiration, Aaron Douglas 1936 Aaron Douglas (1881-1979) was an African American artist who played a leading role in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and...