Cold-painting was a technique popular during the art deco period, which started in the 1920s. Bronze figures, most of them made in Vienna, were covered with enamel paint. The result is a colorful ...

Union Station’s entry vestibule — an ode to Mission Moderne architecture, with its Spanish tile floor and draping Art ... 80 years ago. So there was no way to determine the original ceiling ...

A major retrospective of Art Deco darling Tamara de Lempicka (1898–1980) has opened at the de Young Museum in San Francisco, ranging from some of her most celebrated paintings to lesser-known ...

With her portraits of red-lipped women painted like sculptures in resplendent jewel tones, the Polish painter Tamara de Lempicka has posthumously become an Art Deco icon. Her figures are sumptuous ...