Home designers and shoppers gain renewed permission to use structured ornament and deliberate craftsmanship as Art Deco re-enters fashion and interiors. This revival is visible in major museum programming, runway collections and everyday objects, and it asks households to favour singular, well-made pieces over fast, forgettable trends.
The Story in Pictures
The year marks the centenary of the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris, and the Musée des Arts Décoratifs mounted a large retrospective that closed in April, assembling more than a thousand works across disciplines. That institutional attention has coincided with references on the runway: at Chanel, Matthieu Blazy mined Deco motifs for his Métiers d'Art 2026 show, deploying tassels, feathers and intricate beadwork supplied by Maison Lesage.
For London-based designer and creative director Alex Eagle, the movement's core ideas, geometric order, material honesty and ornament that earns its place, remain useful rules for contemporary interiors. Her practice Eagle + Hodges returns repeatedly to Deco's clean proportions and bold forms. Michael Bargo, an interior designer Eagle consulted, put it simply: "You need a foundation of comfort in your structure, but of course decoration and accessory is always welcome."
Practical ways to introduce the style are small and incremental. Tassels can read modern when paired with pared-back clothing or minimal furniture; a single tassel on a clutch or belt supplies the Deco flourish without overwhelming an outfit. Geometric details, pinstripes, hexagons, step cuts in gems, translate into tailoring, tabletop ceramics and jewellery. Fernando Jorge described his approach to that balance, saying, "I wanted to explore the architectural potential of diamonds, introducing step cuts and sharp edges into my work."
Deco's insistence on intentional luxury also encourages collectors to seek objects with visible craft, from embroidered bags to antique combs and handworked mirrors. That appetite for considered, lasting items helps explain why designers and shoppers are revisiting the style now, after years of disposable design.
Alex Eagle will continue to explore these intersections in her monthly Eagle Eye column, pairing conversations with makers and a curated edit of pieces that make the movement practical for modern homes.
