Alastair Duncan – лучшие книги

This volume set is a unique visual record of the jewellery shown at the Paris Salons from 1895 to 1914. It illustrates some 3000 pieces of jewellery.

This book, the third in a comprehensive multi-volume series on the decorative arts of the Paris Salons 1895 - 1914, provides a virtually complete visual record of the amazing range of furniture created during the twenty year period which saw

This volume, together with "Jewellery : I. The Designers A-K", set forming a unique visual record of the jewellery shown at the Paris Salons from 1895 to 1914. It illustrates some 2500 pieces of jewellery.

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. Alastair Duncan, for 14 years associated with Christie's, New York, is an independent consultant on the decorative arts and a recognised authority on art nouveau and art deco. His many books include "Art Nouveau Furniture" (1982) "Art Deco" (1988) and "Louis Majorelle" (1991), all published by Thames and Hudson.

Questo libra rappresenta il prirrto studio approfondito del fenomeno della fioritura improvvisa dell'arte della rilegatura in Francia, fra '800 e '900, uno dei periodi piu fecondi nella storia delle arti decorative. I sessan-t'anni fra il 1880 e il

Originating in early twentieth-century France, Art Deco is a pastiche of artistic styles, influenced by Cubism and Futurism, Egyptology and the Orient, Ballet Russes and the Bauhaus. Alistair Duncan's exhaustive work surveys one of the most exhilarating periods of decorative art, illuminating the cultural fabric of the period, and discussing some of the century's most influential artists and craftsmen and their works. From Edgar Brandt's ornate ironwork for ocean liners, to Rene Lalique's celebrated perfume bottles, to the Chrysler Building, "Art Deco" takes us on a dazzling tour of one of the century's most vital decorative movements. Antique Collector praises the book as "lavishly illustrated with photographs of interiors as well as individual pieces...an invaluable book for collectors."