100 Years of Art Deco: The World’s Greatest Art Deco Buildings

In southeast London, Eltham Palace, originally a fourteenth-century building badly damaged during the Civil War, was transformed in 1933 when Stephen and Virginia Courtauld restored the medieval hall and added a new extension with a show‑stoppingly glamorous deco interior overseen by architects Seely & Paget, including designer Rolf Engström’s domed circular entrance hall, a black and gold dining‑room door adorned with images of exotic beasts such as the couple’s pet ring‑tailed lemur Mah‑Jongg, and Virginia’s breathtakingly ritzy bathroom with an onyx bath backed by a shimmering gold mosaic. - Dominic Lutyens