Les Annees 40, Anne Bony

Patrick Hamilton -The Slaves of Solitude Published by Constable, London 1947. First edition. Hamilton, cult author of Hangover Square and denizen of seedy pre-war literary Lond...

Richard Henry Dana - Two Years Before the Mast. A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea. First Edition, Harper & Brothers N.Y. 1840. A very important c...

First Edition, published by Concordia Publishing House, St Louis & London 1969. An important and appreciative visual study of Christian artists across Africa, Asia and with several ...

Treasury of American Design Ed. Clarence P. Hornung; J. Carter Brown (foreword); Holger Cahill (introduction) Published by Harry N. Abrams Inc, New York 1976. 2 volume hard back ...

First edition, published by Rodney Phillips & Co, 1949. A very important book of Picasso's sculptures beautifully photographed by the renowned French photographer Brassaï, a close f...

Published by Éditions Charles Moreau, 1998 Text by François Baudot, preface by Karl Lagerfeld. The distinctive designs of Gilbert Poillerat may be regarded as part of the Art D...

An overview of the decorative arts of an era which has an array of decorators, designers of furniture and lighting, metalworkers, and ceramicists. Difficult to define precisely, like...

The revival of the decorative arts in the post-war France is extremely diverse, from the 40 style that endures through official commissions to the classic or neoclassical furniture w...

The revival of the decorative arts in post-war France is extremely diverse, from the 40's style which endures through official orders to classical or neoclassical furniture whose suc...

Années 30 en Europe Le Temps Menaçant 1929-1939 by Pagé Suzanne and Vidal Aline. Published by Flammarion Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, 1997...

A hard back book written by one of the great experts on 20th century decorative arts. Arbus was a decorator, furniture designer, architect and sculptor, he was interested in good design and favoured the use of exotic and luxurious materials, such as rare wood veneers and lacquer, in his furniture designs. He made his name through the 1930s and 1940s and was a contemporary of many the great designers of the Art Deco era. Throughout his career he won numerous awards and worked on many significant commissions for the French Government, in particular a jewel cabinet...

Ruhlmann, Genie de l'Art Deco (Ruhlmann Art Deco Genius), a special edition of the French magazine L'estampille, L'Objet d'Art published during the e...