Art Deco Complete
Book description
Art Deco Complete is the last word in Art Deco, the most glamorous decorative arts style, and the one that shaped popular ideas of modern luxury. It covers furniture and interior decoration, sculpture, paintings, graphics, posters and bookbinding, glass, ceramics, lighting, textiles, metal work, and jewelry. It includes the work…
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I picked up this book for a very simple reason: I had just moved and was furnishing my new apartment from scratch and wanted a guide for inspiration.
I’ve also loved Art Deco design since seeing a fading image of the era and its works appear in many of my favorite science fiction movies and books, from Metropolis to Bladerunner and The Caves of Steel to Fahrenheit 451.
“Beauty in everyday objects” might briefly describe the movement. Still, there’s more to it than that and Duncan’s book meticulously describes the period through a variety of media, including architecture, sculpture,…
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