Art Deco Furniture: The French Designers
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"Lavishly illustrated … an invaluable book."― Antique Collector The Art Deco movement, which swept through Europe and the United States in the early twentieth century, signaled the beginning of the modern age of design. This dazzling and distinctive style, with its emphasis on up-to-date individuality combined with good taste, fine materials, and exquisite workmanship, soon created new standards in furniture design, architecture, and the decorative arts. In furniture especially, the French predominated, from the virtuoso cabinet-making of Ruhlman to the brilliant originality of Gray and Legrain. In Art Deco Furniture , Alastair Duncan introduces us to the work of eighty-five French architects, interior designers, and furniture makers. These pioneering designers replaced the heavy, stylized work of the past with furniture that was simpler in concept, geometric in form, and highlighted by dramatic lines and elegant curves. The color and monochrome photographs―almost all of them specially commissioned for this book―form a valuable portfolio of Art Deco furniture. This detailed study serves as both an essential reference book for collectors and a marvelous chronicle of one of the most exciting design movements in the history of the decorative arts. 312 illustrations, 68 in color Review: Great book - Very well organized. Good overview of period designers with some deeper dives. Review: God, I love this Book!!! - 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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| Customer Reviews | 4.4 out of 5 stars 37 Reviews |
T**E
Great book
Very well organized. Good overview of period designers with some deeper dives.
M**Y
God, I love this Book!!!
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!
C**E
Nice quality book
Great book. Well packaged and received in good time.
A**.
very nice balance of photos and text. Good value production
very nice balance of photos and text. Good value production
D**O
Five Stars
Great for the price and not a disappointment.
U**R
A great book-interesting and informative!
This book is very informative and has great photography! The photos are of pristine quality and the work featured is magnificent. A must-read for all those interested in Art Deco and/or French culture!
C**I
but it is a great book nonetheless
The book came in another format with a different cover, but it is a great book nonetheless.
H**E
A fine book.
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.
R**D
Exhaustive Survey of French Art Deco Furniture and Designers
This 192 page book gives a pictorial survey of French Art Deco Furniture, in the period 1910-1935. The extensive photography is a mixture of [mostly] contemporaneous B&W photos of furniture in situ, some extracts from catalogues, together with some excellent new colour pictures of individual pieces and details. The text gives (in a variety of detail, some entries of a couple of paragraphs, other several pages) an alphabetical biographical directory of designers active in that period. Given that art deco is best appreciated and understood within the broad sweep and interplay of architecture, setting, materials etc, this is an excellent book to understand the lineage of French ideas through Art Nouveau to Art Deco and beyond.
H**H
out of print reference book
Sop glad to have found a copy of this hard-to-find reference book at an affordable price
L**R
Perfect
Beautiful book. So chuffed with it!
B**S
Five Stars
Great, love the histories of the designers.
S**R
Five Stars
great product
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