Art Deco Society of New York: A Record of Advocacy and Loss
The organisation’s history reflects both sustained efforts to document New York’s Art Deco heritage and a determined, if sometimes unsuccessful, fight to preserve it.
Architecture
Addoldai Cymru: How Wales Set Out to Keep a Selection of Its Closed Chapels
Founded in 1999 at Cadw’s initiative, the Welsh Religious Buildings Trust has spent a quarter of a century taking redundant chapels into its care, from Tremadog in the north to Trecynon in the south.
Two Mornings on the Bridges of Venice
On 26 and 27 September 2026 I guided twenty people across the bridges of Venice, from the station to the Rialto: two hours a day looking at who builds, rebuilds and maintains the crossings a city on water cannot live without.
Temples of the Motor Age: Petrol Station Design, 1933
Ten petrol stations from the 1930s to the 1950s built as architecture: Arne Jacobsen at Skovshoved, Fiat Tagliero in Asmara, Cereghini at Lecco, Bacciocchi in Milan, OZO Bellevue, Purfina in Arnhem.
Shop Lettering in Santarcangelo di Romagna
Painted on render, cut into travertine, cast in metal script, enamelled by the state monopoly: in two hundred metres Santarcangelo di Romagna shows four centuries of shop lettering. We looked for a rule protecting any of it and found none.
Art Nouveau Capitals Beyond the Traditional Guidebooks
The Art Nouveau map most people carry has six cities. A catalogue of 10,000+ heritage places tells a wider story — from Oradea and Subotica to Melilla and Ålesund.
Liberty Palermo on Foot: A Basile and Florio Walk
Palermo produced one of Europe’s finest chapters of Art Nouveau, shaped by architect Ernesto Basile and financed by the Florio dynasty — this walking guide covers four surviving Liberty buildings, from a grand waterfront hotel to a pleasure complex.
Liberty Milan on Foot: Sommaruga and Porta Venezia
A walking guide to Milan’s Liberty architecture — the Italian Art Nouveau — anchored on Giuseppe Sommaruga’s Palazzo Castiglioni, the tiled façades of Porta Venezia, and the ironwork of Alessandro Mazzucotelli.
Liberty Turin on Foot: A Pietro Fenoglio Walk
A walking guide to Turin’s Stile Liberty architecture, tracing Pietro Fenoglio’s own house, two Po hill villas, an early eclectic palazzo, and the 1902 Exposition that launched Italian Art Nouveau across the city’s best-preserved Liberty district.