chrome and Vitrolite glass were now at designers' fingertips, as well as mass-manufacturing techniques. Electric lighting also played a role, with many art deco buildings colourfully illuminated.

With Art Deco turning 100, it's time to understand the key differences between two of the most iconic styles of the 20th century ...

Art Deco is a design movement popular in the 1920s ... It was not monochromatic but often two, three, or more colors. Black, white, gold, chrome, and brass were also common accents.

Art deco expresses America's best and worst of times ... streamlined modernized classicism and flamboyant new materials like chrome. Most of these buildings are on the National Register of ...

Situated in the affluent Auckland suburb of Grey Lynn sits a house covered in mold inside and out, with a collapsed floor and a leaky roof. But new owner Steve Partridge says it's got good bones.