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<p class="div-deco-text">The Grand Palais reopened its gilded doors in the autumn of 1922, its iron-and-glass vault catching the afternoon light.</p>
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<p class="div-deco-text">She wore a dress the colour of champagne with a hem that ended precisely at the knee — scandalous only three years prior.</p>
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<p class="div-deco-text">The jazz arrived from New Orleans by way of Harlem, crossing the Atlantic in the trunks of musicians.</p>
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<p class="div-deco-text">Everything gleamed in those years — chrome fittings, lacquered surfaces, pomaded hair in the lamplight.</p>
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