In her heyday, Lina Cavalieri was heralded as the most beautiful woman in the world — a superstar of the Belle Epoque whose legacy is kept alive by a Milan-based, family-run design firm that fell in ...

But Claire McCardell was a pioneering outlier. From the 1930s to the 1950s this designer found freedom creating affordable, ...

TOMS RIVER -- Photographer Roman Vishniac visited Jewish communities in Eastern Europe in the mid- to late-1930s, documenting ... artist has used Vishniac's famous photographs as a template ...

My curiosity was piqued since his memoir “Untold Friendships: 60 Years with a Famous Host and His Famous ... roughly from 1930 to 1942. The scion of a prominent New York family, he scrambled ...

Here, AD rounds up famous buildings from around the world ... A defining feature of the Manhattan skyline, the Chrysler Building is a 1930 Art Deco skyscraper with a radiant sunburst-patterned ...

Turin’s limited selection of upscale hotels is evidence of its relative lack of tourism, for while there is no shortage of places to stay, big hotel groups and buzzy new design hotels haven’t ...

Explore the “Top 10 Museums to Visit in the USA” and dive into art, history, and science at these remarkable cultural ...

But by the end of the decade others were turning their mind to developing the ‘art’ – not ... 14th July 1930, a BBC producer Lance Sieveking, already famous for his experimental radio ...

The movie takes us back to the 1930s during the legendary crime spree ... Movies have always been a gateway into radical art; Hollywood may have made them sleek and accessible, but experimentation ...

The name’s Connery… Sean Connery, an actor almost everyone is able to recognize if only for his role as the most famous spy ...

Born in Ireland in 1878 into an aristocratic Scots-Irish family, Gray moved to Paris in 1902 to study art, having already taken classes ... Eileen Gray first designed furnishings. She was famous for ...

As the world faced a second global war, among the politics and propaganda, the 1930s saw significant change in the way people communicated through design – particularly as the written word ...