Art Deco Interiors

Patricia Bayer is the author of Art Deco Architecture. She is currently the arts editor of the Encyclopedia Americana, and is writing a collector's guide on Art Nouveau and Art Deco for Sotheby's.

出版者:Thames & Hudson

作者:Patricia Bayer

页数:224

出版时间:1998-4-17

价格:USD 39.95

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780500280201

By the time of the Paris exhibition of 1925 from which Art Deco took its name, the idea that an interior and its furnishings should form a complete design - a "total look" - dominated the thinking of both designers and their clients. Studios began to emerge to serve the needs of a design and style-conscious middle-class. This text displays the flourishing design ingenuity through contemporary photographs and illustrations of selected interiors complemented with modern photographs of individual pieces. It traces the sylistic evolution and dominant motifs of Deco, the triumph of the 1925 exhibition and the pure "high style" of the Paris ensembliers; the growth of Streamline Moderne offshoots in the US; the international revival of Deco as a decorative style for a new generation of post-modern designers; and the restoration of many Art Deco interiors to their original state.