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This grand opus assembles the people and the pieces at the heart of
the Art Deco movement at each stage of its enduring
appeal. The Art Deco Style is richly illustrated with
the work of legendary designers and decorators Eileen Gray, Paul
Iribe, Antoine Bourdelle, Armand-Albert Rateau and Jean Dunand,
among others.   Ever since its early
20th-century origins, Art Deco has fascinated and amused
socialites, collectors and designers. Referred to at the time
as moderne, the style largely took shape around a clientele
of French fashion industry luminaries and wealthy
international collectors. Art historians christened it during a
second wave in the ’60s, while a third generation of afficionados
entered the auction houses of the ’80s and ’90s, ready to
invest in the most exquisite examples. Curated by art consultant
and author Alastair Duncan, this detailed historical account is the
gold-standard visual guide to the decorative
arts.   Â
This book showcases and puts into historical context a host of
sculpted works created in the 1920s and 1930s in the decorative
vernacular defined loosely today as `Art Deco'. Whether designed as
free-standing statuary for the domestic market or commissioned for
some form of architectural placement, as a frieze on a building's
facade or as a public monument or pool fountain, the works shown
demonstrate a sometimes bewilderingly broad range of styles and
stylistic influences: from the chevrons, sunbursts, maidens,
fountains, floral abstractions and ubiquitous biche (doe) of the
Parisian geometric style to the crisp, angular patterns of the
zig-zag, jazz-age, streamlined aesthetic of the 1930s. Alastair
Duncan organizes his subject into three main categories: the first
features work by avant-garde sculptors (Csaky, Janniot, Pompon,
etc), often as pieces uniques or small editions; the second shows
commercial sculpture, comprising mainly large-edition statuary,
commissioned as decorative works for the burgeoning 1920s domestic
market; while a final, third category covers architectural and
monumental sculpture from West and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia,
North America, Brazil and beyond. With artists' biographies and
details of manufacturers, a full glossary and a thematic index,
this volume is the essential and authoritative guide for all those
interested in the Art Deco style, from the amateur collector of
animalier sculpture to professional historians of the period.
"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, metal work, and
jewelry. It includes the work of all of the important Art Deco
designers, from high-style French furniture makers to the creators
of the popular "Streamline Moderne" style. And it is, in the spirit
of Art Deco, a lavish and attractive book, as well as being
authoritative and thorough. This 544-page volume includes more than
1,000 color images of classic Art Deco objects and spaces.
Its author is the colorful and experienced Alastair Duncan, who was
for many years the expert who ran the twentieth-century decorative
arts department at Christie's in New York. Duncan is the author of
many well-known books on Art Deco and Art Nouveau. This book will
stand as his monument to Art Deco.
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Galle Lamps (Hardcover, New)
Alastair Duncan, Georges De Bartha
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R1,602
R1,211
Discovery Miles 12 110
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Although renowned for his work as a verrier, lamps did not form a
significant part of Galle's repertoire in glass until immediately
prior to 1900. Indeed, only in the last few years of his life does
it appear that he realised the full aesthetic potential of
opalescent glass viewed by transmitted light. In an Art Nouveau
context, Galle's creations reached their apogee between 1900 and
his death in 1904, a brief period during which he adapted the shape
of much of his glassware to its theme. Vases decorated with lilies
became lily-shaped in a marriage of form and function.
Fully-ripened gourds pendent on their vines glowed from within at
the touch of a switch. Mushroom lamps brought the concept to full
embodiment in the metamorphosis of the giant fungi into light
fixtures. This comprehensive volume catalogues the full range of
light fixtures produced by the Galle cristallerie, from those made
during his lifetime to those manufactured for more than twenty-five
years after his death. Including table, bedside, hanging and wall
models, 'Galle Lamps' reveals the extraordinary variety of thematic
shade-and-base combinations introduced by the firm: butterflies,
moths, dragonflies, swallows and eagles hover, flutter, glide or
swoop over flora and mountain vistas in a seemingly endless
interplay of Nature's decorative motifs. This volume is a companion
to 'Galle Furniture' ISBN:9781851496624.
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Galle Furniture (Hardcover)
Alastair Duncan, Georges De Bartha
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R2,097
R1,569
Discovery Miles 15 690
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Emille Galle was one of the leading figures of the Art Nouveau
movement in France, and founder of the famous Ecole de Nancy. A
polymath and committed social activist, he was best known for his
glasswork and faience. Furniture became his third discipline after
experimenting with the manufacture of wooden bases on which he
could mount his glass vases. Galle ardently followed the French
tradition of furniture decoration known as marqueterie. His work is
characterized by its meticulous decorative veneers, stained with
subtle organic dyes; its panels inlaid with stunningly intricate
country scenes and flowers. This book outlines all of Galle's major
works of furniture, from the unique pieces that were designed for
an exclusive clientele, to those displayed between 1889 and 1904 at
the annual Paris Salons and two World Expositions. The recent
emergence of many of his objets de luxe enables the reader to
understand many of his pieces for the first time. Written by
Decorative Arts specialist Alastair Duncan, the book documents the
history of Galle s furniture production from his favorite motifs to
the ways in which he used furniture design to express his social
and political ideals. Duncan includes an encyclopedic range of
models created in the Galle Workshops both during and after his
lifetime. Beautifully illustrated, and containing translations of
Galle s Notes to the juries of the World Expositions, this stunning
publication will leave the reader captivated by this decadent
expression of the new art that changed the European aesthetic
forever.
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Art Nouveau (Paperback)
Alastair Duncan
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R757
R664
Discovery Miles 6 640
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With its fluid organic forms and its devotion to beauty in design,
art nouveau has enjoyed great popularity, both at its inception and
during the modern resurgence of interest and enthusiasm. Alastair
Duncan tells the story of its meteoric rise from its origins as a
reaction by young artists and designers to the traditionalism and
revivalism of the mid-19th-century fine and decorative arts. The
new art first made itself felt around 1895, in architecture,
furniture, glass, ceramics and the other applied arts, and fell
into eclipse after World War I, until its rediscovery in the 1960s.
The author recounts the history of this important and influential
movement in detail, introducing the main personalities - Galle,
Lalique, Tiffany and others - and relating their aims and
accomplishments to the background from which the movement emerged.
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Art Deco (Paperback)
Alastair Duncan
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R590
R523
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Art Deco is one of the most exciting chapters in the history of the
decorative arts. Conceived in France before the First World War, it
spread throughout Europe and had its greatest and most spectacular
success in the United States. Myriad influences shaped the style -
Cubism, Constructivism, Orientalism, the Ballets Russes, the
Bauhaus - and its exponents included many of the century's most
celebrated artists, designers and craftsmen.
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