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.

Concise descriptions and 750 detailed line drawings chronicle four hundred years in the history of French furniture design, from the era of Louis XIII to early twentieth-century Art Deco pieces, offering helpful tips on furniture styles, characteristics, design details, and more. 15,000 first printing.

"Furniture Design : From Rococo to Art Deco with more than 1300 illustrations, most of them in colour, this indispensible reference work offers the amateur, connoisseur and collector a panorama of three centuries of European furniture."--BOOK JACKET.

SIGNED, NUMBERED, LIMITED EDITION OF 1000!!! 568 pages of the greatest American Art Deco Designers and Manufacturers with examples of their work, period documentation and their marks and labels pictured and assigned to each designer / manufacturer! This book has been in the making for 3 years by a collector and dealer in American Art Deco since 1979. It includes chapters on: Paul Frankl, Donald Deskey, Gilbert Rohde, KEM Weber, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Warren McArthur, Alfons Bach, Paul Lazlo, Frank Fletcher, Walter Dorwin Teague, Henry Dreyfuss, John Vassos, William J. Campbell, Ralph Widdicomb, Charles Hardy, Eliel Saarinen, Alexis de Sakhnoffsky, Fritz Eldon Baldauf, David Robertson Smith, Eugene Schoen, Norman Bel Geddes, Walter Von Nessen, Russel Wright, Herman DeVries and a Chapter on Anonymous Designers. The manufacturers include Modernage, McKay and Kittinger PLUS a full chapter on Tags, Marks and Labels identifying each label to its designer / manufacturer. THIS BOOK WILL BECOME THE "BIBLE" ON AMERICAN ART DECO FURNITURE!! All the photographs are previously unpublished and the research material was gathered during the past 30 years of buying, selling and collecting Art Deco. The book has OVER 400 Illustrations (photos & documentation)

Explores the tradition of the streamlined design and reveals how it was manifested in the great buildings, furniture, and merchandise of the 1930s.

work on the subject for many years to come." "With over 1,000 illustrations in colour and black-and-white." --Book Jacket.