The Deco Diaries
Chronicling the inspiration and creativity of the Art Deco era
Diary Articles
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...