The term "art deco" is being applied too liberally to architecture built under colonialism, writes Edward Denison as part of ...

TOKYO -- An art deco building in the Japanese capital that has been serving as the country's first textbook library houses materials dating as far back as the Kamakura period (1185-1333).

While the style of art deco filtered down to the most everyday ... the corset and looking instead to looser silhouettes like the Japanese kimono and Turkish harem pants. Sewell wrote how Erté ...