Art Deco Architecture


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This exploration of Art Deco architectural design embraces many different times and places in its visual and verbal account of the movement's origins, development, and influence.




Art Deco Design and Ornament


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Here is an astounding collection of images where the highly stylized Art Deco form is evident in every draping vine, languid curve, bulging muscle, and geometric figure. Crisp photos feature friezes, sculptures, architecture, vases, furniture, plaques, and much more. Reprinted from a rare, early-20th-century edition. 349 black-and-white illustrations.




Art Deco Spot Illustrations and Motifs


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The sleek, exciting geometric motifs seen everywhere in today's decorative arts reflect the continuing Art Deco revival. Textiles, wallpaper, upholstery, and graphics abound with the dynamic, distinctive patterns associated with this influential and popular style. Now artists, designers, and craftspeople can have a treasury of original Art deco compositions at their fingertips — ready for use in any graphic project. This volume includes over 500 crisp black-and-white spot illustrations and motifs combining stylized birds, insects, and floral elements with circles, squares, ovals, triangles, and other abstract forms. Best of all, they're copyright-free . . . no prior permission or fee is required for use. Remarkably inventive and versatile, William Rowe's masterful Art Deco renderings are perfect for highlighting advertisements, greeting cards, menus, catalogs and invitations, or for adding graphic vitality to fabric designs, stationery, bookplates, and a host of other arts and crafts undertakings. You'll find Art Deco Spot Illustrations and Motifs ideal for your needs whether your project calls for an entire illustration or just a single motif. Designers, illustrators, and craft enthusiasts will want to keep this time-saving, money-saving collection on hand as an inexhaustible source of inspiration with fresh Art Deco flavor.




Art Nouveau Ornamentation


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This splendid source of authentic Art Nouveau designs presents more than 90 breathtaking plates, ranging from single to full color, selected from rare originals of a renowned German studio's stock portfolios.




The World of Art Deco


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Décorations Egyptiennes


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Drawn from a 20th-century French collection, this volume interprets classic motifs of ancient Egypt in a dynamic Art Deco style. Hundreds of images include serpents, scarabs, and mythological creatures as well as a profusion of stylized flowers. Individual motifs can serve as striking spot illustrations, and dozens of borders and panels can be used as repeating patterns.




Designs and Patterns from Historic Ornament


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This well-known book was prepared more than 75 years ago by two British architects, and its reputation has grown steadily since. The Audsleys' clear rendering of ornaments and designs from a wide variety of sources and national traditions, their excellent sense of space and proportion, and their straightforward execution of these ornaments in line have made the collection among the most valuable of its kind. The 60 plates contain over 250 large-scale line drawings, mostly executed by the authors. The designs and patterns shown are derived from architectural decorative motifs, textile designs, patterns from ceramics and tiles, and more from Egypt, Greece, Italy, Japan, Persia, Medieval Europe, and other places. A brief text specifies sources for many of the designs, and captions identify national origin and often the original color scheme.




Art Nouveau: The Essential Reference


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Full-color and black-and-white works by virtually every key artist of the Art Nouveau movement, including Mucha, Seguy, Beardsley, and Verneuil. Includes material from rare books, portfolios, and major periodicals, plus bibliographies and artist biographies.




Authentic Art Deco Interiors


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The dramatic 1925 Paris Exhibition heralded the emergence of the Art Deco movement as a great decorative style. The photographs in this book were originally published in three volumes to show the rooms furnished for the exhibition. These original books are now extremely rare and expensive.




Art Deco 1910-1939


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Originally published in 2003 as the catalog of an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.