Pairs of ceramic dancing figures in exotic costumes were favorites in the art deco period, starting about 1920. Many different pairs — about 19 or 20 inches high — have been selling with the mark “Cia ...

Art deco collectors are faced with mountains of fakes, reproductions and cheap replicas intheir search for that elusivecollectable original. What's more, it is not just novice collectors who get ...

QUESTION: I received this lamp from an old friend. It is marked "Non-Explosive Lamp, Made in USA, EM & Co. 435." I would like to know the value. -- Helen French, South Euclid ANSWER: Edward Miller & ...

Auction-room interest in a 1930s Italian ceramics maker has never been stronger. The art deco ceramics of the Turin factory Lenci are running hot. The sale in London of two of the factory's figurines ...

A centennial show in Paris reveals how a distinctly French esthetic became a worldwide language of modern luxury.

Art Deco wasn’t invented at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes in Paris, but it was announced to the world there. In this photograph taken on October 25, ...

Catalog of an exhibition at the Old Town House, Cape Town, South Africa. Title from cover. "Our sincere thanks go to Bonhams Auction House, London, who have ... sponsored the catalogue 'Ballet in ...

The defining design movement of early 20th-century America, Art Deco led to interiors that are bold, rich, and decadent ...