Product Description: Designs on modernity presents the 1925 Paris Exhibition as a key moment in the attempts to update the image of Paris, 'capital of the nineteenth century'. At the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoatifs et Industriels Modernes, the city of Paris itself, as much as the commodity, was put on show...read more

Product Description: From the coauthor of the best-selling Handbook of Painted Decoration comes this advanced exploration of trompe l’oeil art and technique.Trompe L’Oeil Panels and Panoramas is a treasury of stunning designs ideal for interior designers and their clients, artists seeking inspiration, or for those simply wishing to copy the images themselves, as the author invites readers to do...read more

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Product Description: Book by Horsham, Michael

Product Description: Book by Powell, Polly, Peel, Lucy

Product Description: The author chronologically describes, compares and contrasts all the major trends in North American and European ornament from 1900 to the present day. Varnacular ornament and mass-produced household objects are included and situated in their social context.

Product Description: Great condition kept in mylar cover. Hard cover with dust jacket. Fully illustrated comprehensive over view of decorative art styles.

Product Description: A dazzling array of bold black and white shapes in mosaiclike configurations and repeating geometrical patterns covering a variety of moods

Examines the styles of interior, industrial, and architectural design, discusses the importance of function in design, and argues that design must respond to the needs of machine-age production methods

Looks at various decorative styles, including Gothic revival, eclecticism, Orientalism, primitivism, the Arts and Crafts Movement, Art Deco, and modernism

Portrays the work of contemporary architects, interior designers, craftspeople, and artists