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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Art Nouveau, or "new art" in French, is an architectural and artistic movement that emerged in the late ...

Art Deco—which can be described as more of a style than a time period—blends a modern sensibility with earlier elements of Cubism, Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau. Although it has its roots in the ...

Sitting between a dazzling milieu of precious luxury and an industrial age recovering from a great war, Art Deco asks us to ...

What's old is new again when it comes to trends—this time around, we're going back in time about 100 years, to the 1920s and '30s, when Art Deco first burst onto the scene. The architectural style, ...

Over a century ago, a Hungarian ornamental blacksmith named Martin Rose packed his bags and moved to Cleveland. This might seem like a strange move after spending time in Budapest and Vienna, where he ...

A LOVE for nostalgia, manifesting in an Art Deco revival, the resurgence of the Y2 style, and a return to classical glamor were the top luxury interior design trends that top-tier consumers patronized ...

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 ...

An art deco statuette is displayed at Debby Kelsey’s home. MATT BARNARD/Tulsa World When Debby Kelsey first laid her eyes on a home filled with art deco, art nouveau and Victorian pieces, she knew ...

Sarasota Art Museum’s “Art Deco: The Golden Age of Illustration” marks the movement’s centennial with 100 Deco posters. It’s easy to view these lithographs through nostalgia’s rose-colored glasses.