The Quick Trick: It all comes down to "flowery" vs. "streamlined." Art Nouveau is the decorative one. Art Deco is sleeker. The Explanation: Both the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements emerged as ...

As trends steer towards more eclectic and characterful looks, we are more than ever looking to the past for interior design inspiration. We can't deny that history is majorly influencing the designs ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. While art nouveau and art deco are often lumped together as "vintage-inspired design," they're actually two very different styles of art ...

Place Stanislas is an impressive square in Nancy, where locals and visitors sun themselves on the terrace of Café Foy in the ...

To understand the category’s resilience, start with the name. “Art Deco” is a post-war contraction of arts décoratifs ...

The Musée des Arts Décoratifs is celebrating the centenary of the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts of 1925.

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 ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Entirely rebuilt after a devastating 1931 earthquake, Napier, in New Zealand, has a rare collection of art deco buildings.Credit: ...

The “modern girls” (“moga”) who populate some of the works in the Japan Society’s new exhibition, “Deco Japan,” inhabit a world of contradiction: frivolity and militarism, bright colors and dark ...

After the First World War, architecture in Paris (like in other great cities across the world) turned away from the asymmetrical, sinuous forms of art nouveau, (made famous in Paris by architects like ...