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Art Deco Textiles: The French Designers
Alain-Rene Hardy
Thames & Hudson
Thames & Hudson
"A visually exciting look into the world of French Art Deco textile designs…..Highly recommended."— Library Journal The 1920s and 1930s were a time of great social and cultural upheaval, as well as a period of immense creativity in all...
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Normandie: France's Legendary Art Deco Ocean Liner
John Maxtone-Graham
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
A magnificent tribute to the illustrious and ill-fated steamship. Normandie was unquestionably the most beautiful ocean liner ever built. The world's largest at the time, she also became the world's fastest. Her art deco interiors were...
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Alphonse Mucha: The Spirit of Art Nouveau
Victor Arwas, Jana Brabcova-Orlikova, Anna Dvorak
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
This lavishly illustrated book presents the full spectrum of Alphonse Mucha`s works, from his innovative posters and decorative panels to his architectural designs, jewelry, sculpture, photographs, books, and interiors. The authors discuss Mucha`s...
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American Art Deco: Modernistic Architecture and Regionalism
Carla Breeze
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
A lavishly illustrated survey of American Art Deco architecture. Art deco architecture flourished in large cities and small towns throughout America in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of the best examples—office buildings, movie theaters, hotels,...
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Havana Deco
Alejandro G. Alonso, Pedro Contreras, Martino Fagiuoli
W. W. Norton
W. W. Norton
An unparalleled tour of the Art Deco-style architecture, interiors, decoration, and art objects of Havana. Cuban artists, open to the winds of change and to outside influences, filtered the movement born in Paris through the dazzling beauty of...
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Art Deco Fashion
Suzanne Lussier
Bulfinch
Bulfinch
Suzanne Lussier, an expert on French '20s and '30s fashion, is a curator in the Department of Textiles and Dress at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She lives in London.
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Art Deco: 1910-1939
Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton, Ghislaine Wood
Bulfinch
Bulfinch
Sexy, modern, and unabashedly consumer-oriented, Art Deco was a new kind of style, flourishing at a time of rapid technological change and social upheaval. Lacking the philosophical basis of other European design movements, Deco borrowed motifs from...
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Moderne: Fashioning the French Interior
Sarah Schleuning
Princeton Architectural Press
Princeton Architectural Press
Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, Pierre Chareau, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, Eileen Gray: together these designers and their contemporaries pioneered the look of the modern French interior during the 1920s. Moderne presents the finest...
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