Serrurier-Bovy: From Art Nouveau to Art Deco by Jacques-Gregoire Watelet (Book)

by Jonathan Bourne and Vanessa Brett Art and literature portray the very different way of life before the introduction of electric light. The daily schedule of previous generations w...

by Maurice Dufrene The dramatic 1925 Paris Expositions des Arts Decoratifs heralded the emergence of the Art Deco movement as a great decorative style. The High Quality photographs i...

In 1931, aged 29, Jean Royère (1902-1981) resigned from a comfortable position in the import-export trade in order to set up business as an interior designer. He learnt his new trade in the cabinetmaking workshops of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine in Paris. In 1934, he designed the new layout of the Brasserie Carlton on the Champs Elysées and found immediate success, embarking upon an international career that was to endure for nearly half a century. Royère tackled all kinds of decoration work and opened branches in the Near East and Latin America; among his patrons were King Farouk, King Hussein...

Paris 21st & 22nd November 2017. Jacques Has an eye for art and decorative arts that is curious, talented and sincere. his artistic gift, allows him to express himself through his ch...

The Laurence and Patrick Seguin Collection by Jean Prouve The esteemed collectors Laurence and Patrick Seguin first discovered the work of Jean Prouvé in the late 1980s, and were qui...

Jacques Emile Ruhlmann was one of the greatest and most prolific Art Deco cabinet makers and interior designers of the first half of the twentieth century. This is a fine copy of the...

Glass Art Nouveau to Art Deco by Victor Arwas. Academy Editions, London, 1980. Second Edition hardcover with dust jacket. 256pp 104 color plates and 212 b&w. The most important and c...

Caftans From Classical to Camp By: Cameron Silver Join Cameron Silver, founder of LA’s famous—and highly influential—vintage boutique Decades, on a romp through the history and countless manifestations of the caftan, the world’s most universal garment Caftans are never out of style, and this gorgeous book by vintage guru Cameron Silver shows why: Arguably the world’s oldest known garment, the caftan appears in every culture, from the chitons depicted on urns and murals in ancient Greece and Rome to diaphanous versions wafting down today’s red carpets, from the flowing garb immortalized in pre–Raphaelite paintings to the striped stunner worn by Isaac Hayes...

Art: Over 2500 Works from Cave to Contemporary by Nigel Ritchie Hardback Book. 2008.The definitive visual guide to over 2,500 paintings and sculptures from around the world, from pre...

From Bauhaus to Our House, Tom Wolfe Farrar Straus Giroux, New York, 1981 Hardcover 14cm x 20.5cm Good condition

Collectors reference book showing many Art Deco and Art Nouveau lamps from the period. In good condition. Private art dealers collection.

Antique Croquet Rule book by John Jacques. A rare early Croquet 'Laws and Regulations' book by John Jaques. Published in 1865 with illustrated diagram...