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The Art Deco movement - with its emphasis on up-to-date individuality combined with good taste, fine materials and exquisite workmanship - became all the rage in France. Other countries produced their own versions of the style, but in furniture especially, the French predominated: the world had not seen such creative design for 125 years; on the one hand, the virtuoso cabinet-making of Ruhlmann, on the other, the brilliant originality of Gray and Legrain. Alastair Duncan introduces us to the work of over eighty architects, furniture makers and interior designers. The colour and monochrome photographs - almost all of them specially commissioned for this book - form a valuable portfolio of Art Deco furniture which should be of special value to those seeking comprehensive information about a design movement which has proved of lasting appeal both to collectors and to the general public.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Good + Reference Book for French Art Deco Period Furniture. Well written and with a considerable amount of illustrations / photos (unfortunately most of the photos are black and white).
Alastair Duncan is an excellent specialist in Art Deco and if you can afford the more recent «Art Deco Complete» you should go for that. Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s
If not, this book is very good but it would benefit with more colour photos.
Alastair Duncan is an excellent specialist in Art Deco and if you can afford the more recent «Art Deco Complete» you should go for that. Art Deco Complete: The Definitive Guide to the Decorative Arts of the 1920s and 1930s
If not, this book is very good but it would benefit with more colour photos.
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A fine book.
11 April 2000
Format:Paperback
Alistair Duncan presents us 85 of Paris's Art Deco furniture designers from the period 1910 - 1935, including Eileen Gray, Dufréne, Leleu and Ruhlmann. This fine book contains a 7 pages informative introduction with e.g. the history and material of Art Deco furniture. But also 160 pages of biographies of designers, including 244 black and white illustrations & 68 in colour of interiors and furniture, each with a description. Each designer is presented in a concise half a page review. It makes this book an indispensable guide and frame of reference to french Art Deco furniture and a nice book to have on the bookshelf.
God, I love this Book!!!
18 Mar 2012
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I am 65 and decided to pursue my life long passion: collecting art deco furniture! This book is exceptional in presenting samples of art deco furniture. Everyday, I look through my book. The pictures blossom, the writing stands out and I feel I can touch the real thing via the images. I cannot understand why furniture manufacturers did not stay with the real thing. I love my book. I carry it with me when I visit antique shops. Cheers!
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