The Art Deco Murals of Hildreth Meière by Catherine Coleman Brawer and Kathleen Murphy Skolnik is an enlightening and desperately needed book. Most people today have never head of Meière, though ...

Art deco was an art form that took its name from the trailblazing Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modern of 1925. The design style emulated internationally from that ...

''It's hideous!" fumes my friend V., warming up to one of his favorite rants: the unbearable ugliness of the Sears on Main Street. "It's right there on the light-rail line! At the entrance to the ...

As the cultural map of a city shifts, little-known buildings emerge from the background. One fresh example is on a Valencia Street block long shadowed by the Central Freeway, an overscale Art Deco ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – European Street Cafe has been a Riverside staple on Park Street for about 33 years, serving lunch, sweet treats and refreshing drinks to the community. But the building itself ...