Art Deco Textiles
The French Designers
Alain-René Hardy
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| ‘Gorgeous – page after page of glorious textiles … a must for the shelves of today’s designers, as well as browsed for pure sensual pleasure by a wider readership’ | | – The World of Interiors |
| ‘A great book to discover the spectacular world of French Art Deco textiles … overflowing with colour photographs … plenty of inspiration to be found in this book, whether you are a designer, a collector of all things Art Deco or merely have a taste for this distinctive style’ | | – Period House |
The decorative arts were given a fresh lease of life by the Paris International Exhibition of 1925, and experienced a boom that was to shape the lifestyles of a whole generation.
In Art Deco Textiles - The French Designers, hundreds of full-colour photographs bring to life the age when craftsmanship and industry worked side by side: Lyons silk and the first artificial fibres; carved wooden printing blocks and huge multiple-cylinder rotary presses; indigo and madder and aniline and alizarin dyes; tradition and progress.
Whether following the elitist decorative trends of Ruhlmann and Süe, or the more functionalist movement led by Le Corbusier, the worlds of interior decoration and fashion went through radical changes that were both influenced by and reflected in the textiles of the day, and French artists and designers found themselves at the hub of the activity.
Here is a rich cornucopia of fabric creations that will provide endless inspiration to designers and students, and enthral anyone keen to discover the key role of textiles at the cutting edge of Art Deco style.
Alain-René Hardy is a former university lecturer and a specialist in 20th-century decorative art.
Also of interest:
Art Deco Furniture: The French Designers
Art Deco and Modernist Carpets
Decorative Arts and Architecture of the 1920s: Le Arti d’Oggi
The Invention of Chic
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|  |  | | | | ISBN 0500285993 | | ISBN-13 978-0500285992 | | | | 26.0 x 24.0 cm | | Paperback with flaps | | 256pp | | 316 illustrations, 304 in colour | | First published 2006 | | | | £18.95 | | | |  | | | | 
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