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Art Deco Complete
In the most comprehensive account of the decorative arts of the Art Deco period ever assembled, Alastair Duncan celebrates the rich variety of form and diverse international roots that have made it a perennial favourite of collectors and a constant source of inspiration for designers. Straddling two World Wars and the Great Depression, ushering in the Jazz Age and the era of the automobile and skyscraper, and shaping everything from the Golden Gate Bridge to the humble desk lamp, the story of Art Deco is the story of our modern world. In its purest forms, it developed from a characteristically French image of luxury and refinement. Later, modernist European and American designers incorporate...
American art deco
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Art Deco
Duncan's comprehensive survey of Art Deco--the 20th century's last truly sumptuous style of decorative art--serves as a history of Art Deco, an encyclopedia of its artists and craftsmen, and a handbook for the enthusiast, student, or collector. 170 illustrations, 50 in color.
Louis Majorelle
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Art Deco Furniture
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.
Louis C. Tiffany
Based on Takeo Hariuchi's prestigious collection of works by mastercraftsman and industrialist Louis C. Tiffany, Alastair Duncan, the world-renowned expert on the subject, examines every facet of Tiffany's unsurpassed talent for imagination, design, ingenuity, technical expertise, and business affairs. Each piece in the Garden Museum Collection is reproduced in color. 1-85149-457-X $195.00 / Antique Collectors' Club
Eliminate the Impossible
"Sherlock Holmes, arguably the most famous fictional private detective, is known to many purely through his appearances on film. However he had a life on the page long before he made it to the silver screen. This book looks at the origins of the character, examines the original stories and their inconsistencies before moving on to look at his film career and the many actors who have protrayed him." -- Cover, page [4].
