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Alastair Duncan
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’. With artists’ biographies…
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The story of art nouveau, from its inception in the 1890s to the modern resurgence of interest. It introduces the main personalities, such as Galle, Lalique and Tiffany, and relates…
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This volume traces the history of the art deco movement and examines its influence on design. Examples are given of art deco furniture, textiles, ironwork, lighting, silver, glass, ceramics, sculpture…
The book is a visual garden of Deco design, with hundreds of items photographed in colour and described with their useful purposes, materials, and current values. This book is important…
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Endlessly influential, each stage of the Art Deco movement is meticulously chronicled in this grand visual history by art consultant and writer Alastair Duncan.
The sixth volume in a series providing a visual record of the decorative arts of the Paris Salons at a pivotal point in their development. Due to wear and tear…
Alastair B. Duncan
Introducing novels by the Nobel Prize for Literature author, Claude Simon, this text gives emphasis to peaks in his literary achievement: The Flanders Road , The Georgics and The Acacia…
Alastair Duncan,Georges de Bartha
Included for the first time under one cover are all Galle’s major works of furniture, both those he designed as unique pieces for an exclusive clientele and those he displayed…
Showcases the lamps of Emile Galle.
Mohamed Amin,Duncan Willetts,Alastair Matheson
It is not simply the sheer scale of its physical beauty that characterizes this land, where the Blue Nile has carved one of the world’s most awesome gorges. Its ancient…
