The Deco Diaries
Chronicling the inspiration and creativity of the Art Deco era
Diary Articles
Battersea Power Station
Battersea Power Station An icon of the London skyline and immortalised in popular culture, the Grade II listed Battersea Power Station reopens to the...
Else Schiaparelli – Fashion Designer
Else Schiaparelli – Fashion Designer Elsa Luisa Maria Schiaparelli was a surrealist and avant-garde Italian fashion designer born in Rome in 1890. After moving to...
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...
Metropolis - by Fritz Lang
The 1927 science fiction film Metropolis created by Fritz Lang, is a commentary on the politics, poverty, conflict, and fears for the future during the...
Jeanne Lanvin - Fashion Designer
Jeanne Lanvin was a French fashion designer born in Paris in 1867. She trained as a milliner and opened her first shop in 1889. Dressmaking was also a...
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...
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...
The Great British Lido Revival
Pontypridd Lido, built in 1927 recently restored If you haven’t noticed, the British Lido is having a revival, after years left abandoned (and many demolished) in...