Having been bombed heavily during the First World War, le nord is a region that really embraced the urge to rebuild and be reborn during the subsequent annees folles (the “mad years”, France’s answer to the Roaring Twenties).
Today, Art Deco still evokes the glamour and optimism of the 1920s, sandwiched between two catastrophic wars – a time when, for a short spell at least, life felt good.
