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Art Deco
Series: Shire Collections
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This book is ideal for enthusiasts of arts and culture, collectors, interior designers, and anyone fascinated by early 20th-century design and architecture.
TV antiques expert Eric Knowles provides a lavishly illustrated personal narrative and guide to this most alluring and enduring of styles.
TV antiques expert Eric Knowles provides a lavishly illustrated personal narrative and guide to this most alluring and enduring of styles.
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Although usually associated with the 1920s and ’30s, the Art Deco style had already begun to emerge in France prior to the First World War.
However, it was during the interwar years that the style, reaching full maturity, would be embraced across the world as the ultimate expression of modernity, elegance, and refined taste.
Art Deco design is redolent of the Jazz Age, conjuring images of society cocktail parties, the Charleston, and Hollywood in this great but doomed era of excess. But this was also an age that saw momentous technological advances in engineering and transportation, and Art Deco is a feature, too, of the streamlined profiles of high-speed trains, ocean liners, and aircraft.
Here, TV antiques expert Eric Knowles provides a lavishly illustrated personal narrative and guide to this most alluring and enduring of styles in Art Deco.
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"Eric Knowles clearly knows his stuff having worked in the antiques industry since 1976. This shows in his in-depth introduction, which clearly takes us on the journey from the end of World War 1 through to the 1925 Paris Exposition Des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes and beyond. Having a glossy book that shares the key pieces from Art Deco style, is of great interest from a research point of view, but it's also lovely to look at too!" – Kate Beavis, author of Style Your Modern Vintage Home
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780747813286
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 October 2014
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Shire Publications
Illustration: 15 col
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 10.0mm
Width: 178.0mm
Height: 244.0mm
Weight: 476g
Pages: 136
About the Author
Eric Knowles began work at Bonhams, the London auctioneers, in 1976 and became head of the ceramics department in 1981, rising to become a director in 1985. He became a well-known television personality in the 1990s, as a regular expert on the BBC's 'Antiques Roadshow', and as the host of 'Going for a Song'. He has appeared on many television programmes since and currently co-hosts BBC's 'Antiques Master'. He is a regular contributor to BBC Homes and Antiques magazine, is antiques expert for The Sunday Times and the author of several books on antiques and the decorative arts. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and operates today as an independent valuer and fine art journalist.
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