Bring Back Art Deco - The Style That Made the World Look Glamorous

John Summers • Contributor

Nov 12, 2025 11:00 PM EST

There was a time when every building, every sign, and even every lamp seemed to belong in a movie. The Art Deco era didn't just design architecture - it designed ambition. From New York's Chrysler Building to the pastel curves of Miami's Ocean Drive, Art Deco turned geometry and glamour into an aesthetic that made the modern world feel like the future had already arrived.

The look was confident, luxurious, and a little bit wild - sleek lines, metallic edges, and bold symmetry that made even the simplest object feel important. It was the visual language of progress, and somehow, nearly a century later, it still feels fresh.

This collection is a love letter to the movement that gave us cinematic skylines, golden elevators, and interiors that looked like they were built for time travelers. And honestly, maybe it's time we bring it back. The world could use a little more drama, a little more shimmer, and a lot more Art Deco.

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The Eastern Columbia Building, Downtown Los Angeles

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The Eastern Columbia Building

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Winged Figures of the Republic at the Hoover Dam, Boulder City, Nevada.

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A suite on the Orient Express.

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The iconic Art Deco Mercury train operated out of New York from 1936 to 1959.

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Interior of the Fisher Building, Detroit, Michigan.

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Art Deco gas station in Bedford, Pennsylvania.

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Staircase inside Burbank, California City Hall, built 1943.

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Bacardi Building, Art Deco Lobby, Havana, Cuba, 1930.

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The round door Rolls Royce, 1925.

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Frank Lloyd Wright Jr’s 1928 Samuel-Novarro House.

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Henderson KJ Streamliner, 1930.

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Chrysler Building, New York City. 77 floors, built in 1930.

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The Interior of Wannamaker’s Department Store, Decorated for Christmas, December, 1920s.

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Rookwood Ice Cream Parlor, built 1933, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

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The General Electric Building, 570 Lexington Avenue, New York.

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Art Deco Sidewalk grating outside Rockefeller Center, New York City.

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Mercantile Building. Great Falls, Montana, 1937.

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The Marlin Hotel, Miami Beach, built in 1939.

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Monument to Yuri Gagarin, the 42.5-meter high statue made of titanium.

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Niagara Mohawk Building in Syracuse, New York.

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Chandeliers inside the Fisher Building in Detroit, Michigan.

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American Radiator Building located in Midtown Manhattan, NYC.

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Lopez Ancestral House in La Paz, Iloilo City, The Philippines.

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Former Greyhound bus station, 1938, Jackson, Mississippi, US.

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Art Deco Lobby of the Ohio Bell Building, 1930.

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Pennsylvania Railroad Suburban Station in Philadelphia.

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Boston Avenue Methodist Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Completed in 1929.

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