A Night Club Map of Harlem, E. Simms Campbell During the years of Prohibition (1920-1933), Harlem in New York City, became a cultural, social and...

'The Conversation' by Dora Maar, 1937I often write about artists and exhibitions that may be of interest to our Deco followers. This month, I want to...

Jeanne Mammen with her sculptures late 1940sDuring the years of the Weimar Republic, which followed the collapse of the German Empire, the abdication of Kaiser Wilheim II...

Eileen Gray architect and designer, 1878 - 1976Eileen Gray was an Irish architect and furniture designer, born in Ireland in 1878 and was an early...

Dora Maar with little hands, by Man Ray, 1936Dora Maar, born Henriette Théodora Markovitch in 1907, was a French surrealist photographic artist and painter.  She studied...

Diego Rivera, 1886-1957 Diego Rivera was a prominent Mexican artist who believed art was for the many rather than the privileged few.  His large-scale murals, painted...

Sunrise, by Erté, 1984 The evocative work of Romain de Tirtoff, otherwise known as Erté, is quintessentially Art Deco.  Erté was an artist, designer and sculptor born in St....

Dessau Bauhaus Building - built in 1926Modernist architecture: steel-frame construction, a glass curtain wall, and an asymmetrical pinwheel plan Established by architect Walter Gropius in 1919...

Sunray Vase 1929-1930 by Clarice Cliff, on exhibition in the V&A London   Clarice Cliff was born on January 20th 1899, in Tunstall, Stoke-on-Trent. She began...