Also an architectural historian specializing in the Art Deco period about which he has written articles and lectured and he contributed an illustrated article for World of Interiors magazine on the museum at Boulogne-Billancourt, the foremost museum in France devoted to the Art Deco period. His book The North of France (published in English and French) was ground-breaking in introducing Art Deco to a wide public. A member of the Paris Art Deco Society for which he has led tours, he also participated in the World Art Deco Congresses at Rio de Janeiro and at Havana.