Bayer, Patricia : Art deco interiors - Decoration and Design Classics of the 1920s and 1930s

Oversized "Ultimate homage to the Arts Decoratifs" - Elle "A distinguished book." - Arts Review "Highly informative...a book to be relished." - Traditional Homes "Thorough and intelligent." - The World of Antiques By the time of the great Paris Exhibition of 1925, the idea that an interior and its furnishing should form a complete design - a "total look" - dominated the thinking of both designers and their sophisticated clients. In the later 1920s and 1930s, whole studios were established, notably in France and the United States, to serve the needs of a design- and style-conscious middle ciass intent on showing off its newly refined taste for things modern and exotic: the richly lacquered screen, the tubular steel chair, the vivid geometric carpet. Art Deco Interiors documents this flourishing of design ingenuity through contemporary photographs and illustrations of selected interiors juxtaposed with modern photographs of individual pieces. It traces the stylistic evolution and dominant motifs of Deco; the triumph of the 1925 exhibition and the pure high style of the leading Paris ensembliers; the tremendous growth of jazzy, Streamline Moderne offshoots in the United States; the international revival of Deco as a decorative style for a new generation of poit-modern designers; and the restoration of many Art Deco interiors to their original glory. Patricia Bayer is the author of Art Deco Architecture. She is currently the arts editor of the Encyclopedia Americana, and is writing a collector's guide on Art Nouveau and Art Deco for Sotheby's. With over 300 illustrations, 151 in color. 224 pages.