Émile Jacques Ruhlmann was a furniture designer whose work epitomized the Art Deco movement of the 1920s. Translating Neoclassical motifs into Modern proportions and sensibilities, Ruhlmann’s notably ...

No designer has come to stand for the glamorous 1920s and '30s more definitively than Jacques Émile Ruhlmann, with his exquisite marquetry of ivory and rare woods, sumptuous textiles and gleaming ...

Frank Pollaro adores Emile-Jacques Ruhlmann’s Art Deco furniture, but there are days when he curses the Frenchman’s name, for the details that make a Ruhlmann piece so appealing also make it such a ...

Ocean liners, skyscrapers, flappers in smart dresses, the allure of Hollywood, cigarette-holders, martinis, Hemingway and Fitzgerald in Paris: Any mention of “the twenties” arouses an intense longing, ...

The grand opening salon of the exhibition Ruhlmann: Genius of Art Deco at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts is a study in contradictions. On the one hand, it's a pleasure palace, the walls painted the ...

3.25 x 4.75 x 8 in. (8.26 x 12.06 x 20.32 cm.) Stamped; Stamped "Ruhlmann" and "A" from the "Atelier A" Dimensions given are for base of mirror. Diameter of glass is 15.75 inches. Marks and scratches ...