Tag: art deco | The Spectator Australia

Art deco gave veneer and frivolity a bad name

Jonathan Meades 10 May 2025 9:00 am

The jazz style was the blowsy filling between the noxious crusts of two world wars. More than 30 years passed…

Ysenda Maxtone Graham 15 October 2022 9:00 am

There are two journeys I’ll need to make after reading Tessa Boase’s heartbreakingly poignant book about London’s lost department stores.…

Peter York 1 December 2018 9:00 am

On 10 September 1973 the 1930s Kensington High Street department store formerly known as Derry & Toms reopened as Big…

Juliet Nicolson 13 February 2016 9:00 am

Juliet Nicolson examines women’s lives and changing fashions through a rich hoard of buttons for all occasions

William Cook 13 December 2014 9:00 am

Fortune tellers, pound shops and Orville: it’s easy to take the piss out of Blackpool, but William Cook loves it