but closer to home the use of Portland stone and gilt lettering as seen with London's St Olaf's House are also hallmarks of Art Deco and Streamline Moderne. At the same time, urban development ...

As the Art Deco movement ... keeping in line with Deco, the balconies are elongated and banded with horizontal lines, curving in the corners, being a classic feature of Streamline Moderne, a ...

As the Art Deco movement turns 100, its legacy still shimmers across Indian cities — not just in Mumbai’s famed skyline, but in the quiet curves of Delhi’s old hotels, houses, and cinemas. Introduced ...

I considered myself fairly well informed about the city’s heritage until I came across the Instagram page of Lucknow Art Deco, run by conservation ... Chowk to Ram Rup Clock Tower on GT Road ...

It was on May 6 that I wrote about the Art Deco style completing a century across the world. I was not quite prepared for the flood of emails, comments, and calls that followed, recalling one or ...

Delhi is celebrated for its Mughal and colonial architecture, but few know about its stunning Art Deco buildings - each with a unique story. From the iconic Ram Roop Clock Tower to the timeless ...

A 1938 landmark by Shorabji Bhedwar, featuring a red sandstone façade, ziggurat roofline, and murals, epitomising Mumbai's Art Deco elegance.

Art Deco has never really gone out of style: Even after a century, the zigzag meanders, suave ladies and elegant lines associated with it still define sophistication. The style gained popularity ...

One of the more interesting stories we have this week is on the village of Dharmaj in Anand, Gujarat, which has more than 120 Art Deco buildings that date back to the 1930s and ’40s—that’s a ...

A hundred years ago, Paris hosted the 1925 Exposition that gave Art Deco its name. The movement would captivate the world. Its language — sunbursts, zigzags, a blend of lavish curves with sharp ...

It was on April 29, 1925, that the Paris Exposition formally introduced the Art Deco style to the world. It took 10 years for the form to come to Madras. In between, Bombay took to it, the ...