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...

Helen Wills in action, wearing her signature outfit  As we near the start of Wimbledon, we take a look back at some of the tennis...

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....

Cover of La Femme Chic a Paris - November 1926 At Christmas 2018, we thought it would be a good time to take a look at outerwear,...

LMS Best Way Railway Poster 1928 By the 1920s, travel was popular.  The upper classes travelled abroad to exotic destinations, whereas the middle classes were...

Ada Coleman - Head Barwoman at The Savoy Hotel American Bar, 1920s  The prohibition of alcohol in the United States during the 1920s, led to the...

Coco Chanel in a Jersey suit, Biarritz, France 1928 The 1920’s fashionable silhouette lacked structure and was radically different to the Edwardian corseted fashions.  This trend was...

    At the end of the summer in 1929, economist Irving Fisher famously announced that “Stock markets have reached what looks like a permanently high...

The Bass Museum, Miami, Florida, built 1930 On 18th September 1926, a Category 4 hurricane made landfall in Florida. The eye of the storm passed...