Alastair Duncan celebrates art deco's rich variety of form and its diverse international roots as the very factors that make it a perennial favourite of modern collectors and designers.
Alastair Duncan celebrates art deco's rich variety of form and its diverse international roots as the very factors that make it a perennial favourite ...
This book showcases and puts into historical context a host of sculpted works created in the 1920s and 1930s in the decorative vernacular defined loosely today as "Art Deco." The works shown demonstrate a broad range of styles and influences: from the chevrons, sunbursts, maidens, fountains, floral abstractions, and ubiquitous biche (doe) of the Parisian geometric style to the crisp, angular patterns of the zig-zag, jazz-age, streamlined aesthetic to which architects were drawn towards 1930.
The author organizes his subject into three main categories: the first features work by...
This book showcases and puts into historical context a host of sculpted works created in the 1920s and 1930s in the decorative vernacular defined l...
