ART DECO

The iridescent designs of the 1920s and the style of Art Deco is celebrated in this magnificent volume together with publicity material and an abundance of black and white archive photographs reproduced in full page like the modernist looking ferryboat MV Kalakala or an American Streamliner train, the Chrysler Building in New York and beautifully designed hotels, restaurants, movie theatres, galleries, civic buildings. There are plush interiors for luxurious bathroom, decorative ceilings and cornices, extraordinary furniture like leather-sided day beds of inlaid dressing tables, ornate backed chairs, sumptuous rooms whether in Parisian apartments, bedrooms or home offices, beautifully decorated vases and glassware, perfume spray bottles, sculptures, figurine bottles and of course the graphic art, be it posters, designs from Relais in the 1930s and dozens of examples from George Barbier, posters and book illustrations. The book begins with jewellery and Art Deco and Nouveau clothing following a short introduction by the ethnologist and art historian Franziska Bolz. Short captions, hundreds of colour examples which are full page covering all forms of Art Deco design - art, geometry as a motif, sculpture, furnishings and furniture, oceans, mural painting, glassware, ceramics, transport and Art Deco in America in this magnificently illustrated panorama of this ornamental aesthetic in all materials as luxurious as lacquer or stingray. 21.08 x 24.13cm. 280 page paperback, full page colour photos.
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