ART DECO FURNITURE

The Art Deco movement - with its emphasis on up-to-date individualitycombined with good taste, fine materials and exquisite workmanship -became all the rage in France. Other countries produced their own versionsof the style, but in furniture especially, the French predominated: theworld had not seen such creative design for 125 years; on the one hand,the virtuoso cabinet-making of Ruhlmann, on the other, the brilliantoriginality of Gray and Legrain. Alastair Duncan introduces us to the workof over eighty architects, furniture makers and interior designers. Thecolour and monochrome photographs - almost all of them speciallycommissioned for this book - form a valuable portfolio of Art Decofurniture which should be of special value to those seeking comprehensiveinformation about a design movement which has proved of lasting appealboth to collectors and to the general public.