Art deco designers were scavengers, lifting from tribal African sculpture, Mayan temples, Japanese lacquerwork, Byzantine, Chinese and Aztec works. The discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb in 1922 also ...

Blending influences from Cubism, Futurism, Bauhaus, and ancient Egyptian, Aztec, and African art, it exudes luxury through sleek symmetry, exotic materials, and jazz-age opulence. Art Deco was ...

Although classed as art deco, it does not have as much of the ... Its facade boasts a number of motifs specifically informed by Aztec culture, as well as a curving aluminium canopy lined with ...

Borrowing from ancient Aztec and modern art-deco design mo­tifs, the mural is named for Uhzilopochtli, the warrior and Aztec deity. The imagery pays homage to its south-facing position ...

DECISIONS, decisions, de- cisions. Should I go for the Italian beef sandwich, the deep-dish pizza or the hotdog with seven ...

The park also hosts numerous military monuments and effigies of Aztec kings ... of this 20th-century palace showcases art nouveau and art deco-style architecture, while the inside features ...

A city of almost nine million people, it is one of the oldest continually inhabited cities in the Western Hemisphere, standing on the ruins of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan (founded in 1325).

Ashbee, while the inter-War period and a move to a new state of the art factory in Wealdstone, West London in 1923 occasioned a series of colourful Art Deco wares enlivened by ... in modish forms such ...