The Deco Diaries

Chronicling the inspiration and creativity of the Art Deco era

Diary Articles

The Cabaret - Musical

The Cabaret - Musical

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. 

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Cabaret Fledermaus Vienna

Cabaret Fledermaus Vienna

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...

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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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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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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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