Author: Carla Breeze A lavishly illustrated survey of American Art Deco architecture. Art deco architecture flourished in large cities and small towns throughout America in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of the best examples—office buildings, movie theaters, hotels, and churches—are still in use. continue >>

Author: Charlotte Benton Sexy, modern, and unabashedly consumer-oriented, Art Deco was a new kind of style, flourishing at a time of rapid technological change and social upheaval. Lacking the philosophical basis of other European design movements, Deco borrowed motifs from numerous sources--Japan, Africa, continue >>

Author: David A. Hanks The twentieth-century's fast cars, trains, and planes promised to conquer space and time; their aerodynamic styling and metallic bodies embodied a new and modern beauty that enchanted American designers from the late 1920s to the 1950s. Streamlining became popular for everything, continue >>

Author: Alastair Duncan Art Deco Complete is the last word in Art Deco, the most glamorous decorative arts style, and the one that shaped popular ideas of modern luxury. It covers furniture and interior decoration, sculpture, paintings, graphics, posters and bookbinding, glass, ceramics, lighting, textiles, continue >>

Author: Ghislaine Wood The glamour, vibrancy, and high style of the Art Deco age comes to life in this handsome companion to the "Art Deco 19101939" exhibition, on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and soon to travel through North America. From the birth of the skyscraper continue >>

Author: Bevis Hillier If one had to select a single title from the recent spate of books discussing the Art Deco style, it should be this crisply written, magnificently illustrated volume. Indeed, Hillier is no stranger to Art Deco scholarship (Art Deco of the 20s and 30s, 1985), and his lively discussion continue >>

Author: David Gebhard Two distinctive modes of architecture evoke a universal style popularized in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s: Art Deco embodied a colorful, decorative, and geometric look, while the Streamline Moderne style contained a sleeker and more industrial look. Gebhard (Los Angeles: continue >>

Author: David Lowe Art Deco New York takes readers on a historically rich and visually spectacular journey through New York in the early decades of the 20th century, when the style known as art deco, with its emphasis on machine-tooled elegance and sleekness of line, replaced the voluptuous beaux arts continue >>

Author: Klaus-Jürgen Sembach Art Nouveau, whose emergence at the same time as cinema was no mere coincidence, represents the most remarkable attempt to reconcile the demands of the technical age with the undying wish for beauty and glorification--or to pit them against the other. Here the reform continue >>

Author: Gabriele Fahr-Becker With this volume, Gabriele Fahr-Becker delivers a complex portrait of the Art Nouveau phenomenon in all of its fantastic variety. It features different national variations of Art Nouveau in Scotland, England, France, Germany, Austria, the United States and other countries. continue >>

Author: Stephen Escritt Art Nouveau conjures up images of nymph-like female figures and sinuous organic tendrils, as well as radical geometric simplicity. In its brief life span, which broached the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, the style spread across the world in myriad continue >>

Author: Paul Greenhalgh Looking at Art Nouveau from an international perspective, this text examines its origins and meaning within an art-historical, literary and social context. It covers all the major designers of the period and the environment in which they worked, describing the variation in forms continue >>

Author: Judith Miller Whether a long-lived passion or a new found pleasure, explore the beauty and originality of Art Nouveau with this sumptuous collector's guide. From furniture to metalwork, jewellery to sculptures - over 1,100 individually priced items, with up-to-date valuations and unique historical continue >>

Author: Keiichi Tahara, Philippe Thiebaut, Bruno Girveau The best of existing European Art Nouveau buildings, monuments and interiors are celebrated in this collection of photographs. Although the style flowered only briefly, and while a great many of its creations were destroyed, there remain these continue >>

Author: Andreas Papadakis The series of movements that formed Art Nouveau are here introduced by Victor Arwas, a leading international expert on the period, and described in a series of essays by specialists from the Victoria & Albert Museum in London: Paul Greenhalgh, Head of Research at the V&A continue >>

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Macklowe Gallery's publication on the "Sculpture of Art Nouveau Paris", which features the nearly 300 French Art Nouveau sculptures on view at Mackowe Gallery's "DYNAMIC BEAUTY" exhibition. Which ran from November 2011 thru January 2012. This publication was assembled to aid the collector, continue >>

Author: Eva Csenkey The Zsolnay Manufactory represents a triumph of Hungarian applied arts, for during its heyday it produced elegant and innovative ceramics for an international clientele as well as architectural ceramics that embellished some of the finest public and private buildings in the Austro-Hungarian continue >>

Authors: Federico Santi, John Gacher Zsolnay ceramic art from Hungary, featuring over 400 color photographs, covers the three main periods of Zsolnay production: 1868 to 1897--Folklorism, Historicism, Victorian Eclecticism; 1897 to 1920--Art Nouveau; and Art Deco; and 1920 to the present--Modernism. continue >>

Author: Martin Eidelberg Edmond Lachenal and His Legacy documents the shifting styles of this important French ceramicist and also the styles of his contemporaries. Order Now continue >>

Author: Horst Makus French and German Edition Order Now continue >>

Author: Alastair Duncan In the early 20th century, the Art Deco movement created new standards in furniture design, architecture, and the decorative arts. This detailed study serves as both an essential reference book for collectors and a marvelous chronicle of one of the most exciting design movements continue >>

Author: Sylvie Chadenet French furniture design has been admired and collected throughout the world for centuries. Filled with 750 line drawings and brief descriptive texts, French Furniture details the salient characteristics of French designs from Louis XIII to the early twentieth century. Small differences continue >>

Author: Judith Miller Judith Miller celebrates and scrutinizes nearly 400 years of great seating in this sumptuous volume, an ode to the ingenuity of design, craftsmanship and sheer wow factor of the chair. Ranging from early antiques such as the 1680 Wainscot Chair and the 1740 Louis XV Chaise Lounge, continue >>

Author: Majorelle Freres & Cie. One of the earliest modern art styles, Art Nouveau swept through Europe and America at the turn of the century. The opulent yet decorative art form influenced all areas of design, delighting enthusiasts with its sensuous, curvilinear motifs patterned after plant and continue >>

Author: Judith Miller Marry a well-established subject-matter expert to a publisher recognized for its lavish four-color and educational tomes, and the honeymoon will last forever. Antiques maven and collector Miller talks all about furniture in what could easily be dubbed the best reference book of continue >>

Author: John Loring Celebrated for his Art Nouveau stained-glass interpretations of birds, insects, fruits and flowers, Louis Comfort Tiffany was the foremost American designer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. His enormous influence on his father's famed company, however, has been largely obscured. continue >>

Authors: Stephen Harrison, Emmanuel Ducamp, Jeannine Falino Fabergé, Tiffany, Lalique—these great designers came together only once to display their goods in what was probably the most opulent exhibition ever mounted. At the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, the three strove to position continue >>

Author: Janet Zapata Louis Comfort Tiffany's spectacular and highly individual Art Nouveau lamps, favrile glass vases, and stained-glass windows have long been admired throughout the world. Recently, however, his considerable accomplishments in other areas of the decorative arts have become more widely continue >>

Author: Vivienne Becker Jewelry was one of the purest, and most successful, expressions of the Art Nouveau movement. It captured the atmosphere and the passion of the fin de sicle, as well as the moral and artistic freedom that characterized the period. Fresh designs and motifs were created with an intense continue >>

Authors: Yvonne J. Markowitz, Elyse Karlin "A new, imperishable beauty," was how the artist and architect Henry van de Velde described it. European Art Nouveau jewelry of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries embraced a new aesthetic characterized by sensuous forms, dramatic imagery continue >>

Author: Dany Sautot Here is a look at Lalique’s creative process through a selection of unusual works–inluding glassware, paintings, jewelery, and fashion designs–that highlight both the technical and aesthetic aspects of his actual craft. Not just another showcase of Lalique art nouveau continue >>

Author: Maria Fernanda Passos Leite The world’s largest collection of jewelery, art objects, artistic glass, and drawings by René Lalique. Calouste Gulbenkian (1869–1955), the famous Portuguese collector, was a friend of René Lalique’s for fifty years, as well as a great continue >>

Author: Evelyne Posseme This comprehensive survey features Art Deco jewelry made by the world’s leading designers and makers between 1910 and 1937. Not only does it include famous names from the Art Deco period; it also restores other notable jewelers to their proper place in one of the most creative continue >>

Author: Francois Chaille Cartier epitomizes creativity and individuality in jewelry design. The 175 objects featured in this book exemplify Cartier’s inimitable talent and represent milestones in twentieth-century design. These archetypes of excellence are important benchmarks in the history of continue >>

Macklowe Gallery's publication on "French Art Nouveau Horn Jewelry", which features 46 French Art Nouveau carved horn items on view at Mackowe Gallery's "Nature Transformed" exhibition. Which ran from May 2012 thru June 2012. This publication was assembled to aid the collector, continue >>

The recently published “Portrait Jewels: Opulence and Intimacy from the Medici to the Romanovs” by Diana Scarisbrick is now available from Thames & Hudson press. Scarisbrick’s book celebrates objects created to please the eye and to be worn, devised either to express sentimental continue >>

Authors: Claire Frechs-throy, Jose Freches This compassionate narrative combines with reminiscences of the artist's friends to vividly evoke Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's tragic, bohemian life. Sumptuous reproductions of paintings, prints, and drawings show why his artistic influence was so great. 227 continue >>

Author: Agnes Husslein-Arco This gorgeous volume surveys the entire breadth of Mucha s work from illustration and decorative arts to his photography and the historical paintings that were his life s passion. Alfons Mucha is known largely for having originated Art Nouveau, when his poster of the actress continue >>

Author: Arthur Ellridge Reproductions of Alphonse Mucha's Art Nouveau posters can still be found in college dorm-rooms, favored by those who prefer a soft romantic aesthetic. His curlicue lettering and borders of encroaching flora set off portraits of elegant and curvy models. His career took off with continue >>

Author: Victor Arwas, Jana Brabcova-Orlikova, Anna Dvorak Alphonse Mucha (1890-1939) was one of the most important decorative artists in Paris at the turn of the century. His sensual female portraits with their elaborate bordersle style Mucha embody the essence of Art Nouveau. The Mucha family and the continue >>

Authors: William R. Johnston, Simon Kelly A wide-ranging and penetrating look at one of the greatest sculptors of the nineteenth century. Antoine-Louis Barye’s animal sculptures are celebrated as much for their technical brilliance and painstaking detail as for their uncanny resemblance to their continue >>

Author: Penelope Curtis Sculpture 1900-1945 provides a new critical analysis of the fascinating development of sculpture in Europe and America during this important period in art history. The most comprehensive concise history of modern sculpture available, this account puts sculpture back into relation continue >>

Author: Edith Crouch The first book exclusively about L.C. Tiffany's glass mosaic masterpieces, created from 1880 to 1931 at the Tiffany Studios in New York City for clients across the continent. Fascinating and well-researched text combines with over 700 color photographs to showcase Tiffany's magnificent continue >>

Author: Alastair Duncan An indispensable pictorial reference book for Tiffany enthusiasts with over 2,000 illustrated items, each one cross-referenced in the index with its original model number in the inventory lists published by the firm. This beautiful and comprehensive work illustrates a seemingly continue >>

Author: Egon Neustadt First published in 1970, The Lamps of Tiffany remains the standard reference work on the complete range of lamp styles, designs and colors of the lamps and glass made at the Tiffany Studios. Featured are some of the finest Tiffany Studios lamps in their rarest colors including the continue >>

Author: Martin Eidelberg, Nina Gray, Margi Hofer It has long been presumed that the lamps, windows, and other luxury objects produced by Tiffany Studios were designed exclusively by Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933), the firm's founder and artistic director. A New Light on Tiffany presents new information continue >>

Author: Hugh McKean The works of the Tiffany Studios revolutionized interior design in turn-of-the-century America. All of the company's works, from stained-glass windows to blown-glass vases, lamp shades to inkwells,bore the unique stamp of one man, Louis Comfort Tiffany. Many of these official Tiffany continue >>

Author: Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen This beautiful book focuses on Laurelton Hall, Louis Comfort Tiffany’s extraordinary country estate in Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York. Beginning in 1902, Tiffany designed every aspect of the immense home, which had eighty-four rooms and eight levels, and extensive continue >>

Author: Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, curator of American decorative arts at the Metropolitan Museum, presents Tiffany’s works in the context of his career, discusses his artistic themes and his devotion to nature, and sheds new light on his technical virtuosity. She has continue >>

Authors: Martin Eidelberg, Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, Nancy McClelland, Lars Rachen Experts in the field have made a selection of exceptional lamps, many of which have rarely been seen or published, and each one has been newly photographed with the latest photographic techniques to reveal in extraordinary continue >>

Aurthor: Nina Gray Explore the construction, fabrication, design, and qualities of authentic Tiffany lamps made between 1900 and 1918. Tiffany Studios produced thousands of lamps in hundreds of designs, although many of the designs were closely related. Examining the ways in which the forms, patterns, continue >>

Author: Marilynn A. Johnson Few American artists have undergone such shifts in critical opinion as Louis Comfort Tiffany. Initially as a painter, then as an interior designer and experimenter in the medium of glass, Tiffany attained a position of great status in the arts. continue >>

Authors:Alastair Duncan, Neil Harris, Martin P. Eidelberg Louis Comfort Tiffany is usually associated with remarkable masterworks of glass, but the full range of his art covers a much greater range. With 72 full-color plates, this book presents eye-opening examples of Tiffany's superbly executed enamels, continue >>

Author: Alastair Duncan Alastair Duncan, the world-renowned authority on Louis C. Tiffany, has produced the definitive work on America's premier artist-designer, examining every facet of Tiffany's unrivalled achievements in a lifetime consecrated, in his own words, to "The Quest of Beauty." continue >>

Author: Moise S. Steeg Louis Comfort Tiffany's blown art glass, made from 1891 to 1928, embodies the artist's superior workmanship and satisfied his dream to introduce objects of both usefulness and beauty into the average household. These lovely objects, which he named "Favrile" and made in continue >>

Author: Martin Eidelberg Eidelberg traces the evolution of Tiffany favrile glass and presents a new chronology of the coding system. This groundbreaking volume will become the definitive reference on Tiffany favrile glass. This hard cover book has over 100 new color photographs as well as archival photos. continue >>

Author: William R. Holland In the dynamic first quarter of the 20th century, Louis Comfort Tiffany and his Tiffany Studios in New York City produced 24 distinctly different bronze desk-set patterns with nearly 1,000 different items sold separately, so that successful business leaders could decide which continue >>

Editor: Jacob Baal-Teshuva This volume presents Tiffany's magical lamps and stained glass. This lavish volume provides an overview of the fifty-year career and the highly innovative and creative work of Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848-1933). The inventor of Favril Glass, an opalescent glass with deep, glowing continue >>