A functional and beautiful publication, much like the topic of design and artistry it describes, Art Deco is the decorative, distinctly aesthetic style of the years between 1920 and 1940. The movement embraced all areas of lifestyle and art and was a commitment to modern technology, industrial design and functionality. With over 500 illustrations, this volume showcases the complexity of the Art Deco style and its manifestations in architecture, fashion, advertising, everyday objects, transport, furniture and more. Each page is devoted to a quality colour archive poster, or photograph and with short informative captions in English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian. Stained glass, carpets, decorative furniture with beautiful lines and polished woods, sophisticated glass, lamps and clocks, interiors often built and designed for villas and administrative buildings of corporations, exquisite book illustrations with dreamy nudes, posters for Leningrad as a tourist destination or a 1925 George Barbier coloured lithograph for skiing in France, a René Lalique peacock head figure, patterns and designs all in colour with a female head in profile, or a jaguar on the clasp of an elegant evening handbag, bejewelled in diamonds, and of course the beaded cocktail dresses and posters showing a new lifestyle like an elegant lady with an Afghan greyhound, the artwork celebrating the self-confident and fashion-savvy woman liberated from the constraints of dress codes. Think Marlene Dietrich with flamboyant make-up wearing a trouser suit and tie. Approximately 500 spectacular illustrations, 480pp in heavyweight quality softback published by Könemann approx. 19cm square.
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