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 ...

Characteristic of the Art Deco movement, his works are boldly adorned with all ... His artistic turning point came when he began working with Japanese artist Seizo Sougawara in the early 20th century, ...