It is design era as brand, the rare historical aesthetic that is known and referenced by name. Art Deco celebrates its 100th ...

How the Parisian house uses geometry and diamonds to ensure that each masterpiece is as groundbreaking as the last.

One hundred years ago, a sprawling international exhibition was staged in Paris. It was intended to dazzle visitors with all that was new in architecture, design, fashion, and jewelry, and to ...

The 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts held in Paris was a landmark event in art history.

A recent newspaper headline that read “Less lavish, more modern, art deco is returning” caught my attention and had me thinking back to a time growing up in New York City and the wonder and pride I ...

Nightmare Alley is a seedy, film noir world of greed, regret, and psychosis. The movie tracks the story of the down-on-his-luck Stan Carlisle (Bradley Cooper), who walks onto the screen as a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover art, design, culture and people. This article is more than 5 years old. Bold dashes of brass, gold, and soft feminine ...

Between World War I, when the Republic of Latvia was constituted as a parliamentary democracy, and World War II, when democracy was forcibly squelched, Latvia’s capitol city, Riga, hosted a thriving ...

The style’s strong architectural lines have never been more compelling. By Victoria Gomelsky It is taken as gospel in the jewelry industry that the bold, geometric, diamond-dusted aesthetic of the ...