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With Art Deco, designers experimented with modern furniture using metals and plastics in forms which could lead to mass-production. Wrought iron, copper and bronze were popular during the 1920s, but by 1930s the more modern aluminum and chrome took over for metalwork.
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 All the photographs are previously unpublished and the research material was gathered during the past 30 years of buying, selling and collecting Art Deco.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)
What is Art Deco? - The age of Art Deco - Art Deco style - Great commissions - Furniture - Metalwork - Tableware - Ceramics and glass - Fashion - Painting and design - Jewelery.
The impact of Art Deco was felt in every sphere of the decorative arts. This volume examines one of the most important period of design in the 20th century, and relates the story of every aspect of this movement of the 1920's and 30's.