The style originated in France before spreading worldwide in the latter half of the 1920s. Art Deco architecture was seen as a celebration of progress, using geometric forms, lavish materials ...

In 1960, he was commissioned to design the first-class grand salon of the SS France – an ideal showcase for Old’s haute couture approach to interior architecture. ‘His works are well recognised by ...

The sites boast massive, millennia-old structures but no traces of residential ... have had a “breakthrough,” identifying a site in France as home to Europe’s “first megalith builders ...