Art Deco Design and Ornament

Art Deco Design and Ornament
Author: Henri Rapin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 114
Release: 2007-01-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486454312

Here is an astounding collection of images where the highly stylized Art Deco form is evident in every draping vine, languid curve, bulging muscle, and geometric figure. Crisp photos feature friezes, sculptures, architecture, vases, furniture, plaques, and much more. Reprinted from a rare, early-20th-century edition. 349 black-and-white illustrations.

Art Deco Architecture

Art Deco Architecture
Author: Patricia Bayer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1999
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780500281499

This exploration of Art Deco architectural design embraces many different times and places in its visual and verbal account of the movement's origins, development, and influence.

Art Deco Spot Illustrations and Motifs

Art Deco Spot Illustrations and Motifs
Author: William Rowe
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2013-12-31
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0486140725

The sleek, exciting geometric motifs seen everywhere in today's decorative arts reflect the continuing Art Deco revival. Textiles, wallpaper, upholstery, and graphics abound with the dynamic, distinctive patterns associated with this influential and popular style. Now artists, designers, and craftspeople can have a treasury of original Art deco compositions at their fingertips — ready for use in any graphic project. This volume includes over 500 crisp black-and-white spot illustrations and motifs combining stylized birds, insects, and floral elements with circles, squares, ovals, triangles, and other abstract forms. Best of all, they're copyright-free . . . no prior permission or fee is required for use. Remarkably inventive and versatile, William Rowe's masterful Art Deco renderings are perfect for highlighting advertisements, greeting cards, menus, catalogs and invitations, or for adding graphic vitality to fabric designs, stationery, bookplates, and a host of other arts and crafts undertakings. You'll find Art Deco Spot Illustrations and Motifs ideal for your needs whether your project calls for an entire illustration or just a single motif. Designers, illustrators, and craft enthusiasts will want to keep this time-saving, money-saving collection on hand as an inexhaustible source of inspiration with fresh Art Deco flavor.

Art Nouveau Ornamentation

Art Nouveau Ornamentation
Author: Christian Stoll
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 131
Release: 2019-10-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486844137

This splendid source of authentic Art Nouveau designs presents more than 90 breathtaking plates, ranging from single to full color, selected from rare originals of a renowned German studio's stock portfolios.

Décorations Egyptiennes

Décorations Egyptiennes
Author: Dover
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2011-01-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0486484467

Drawn from a 20th-century French collection, this volume interprets classic motifs of ancient Egypt in a dynamic Art Deco style. Hundreds of images include serpents, scarabs, and mythological creatures as well as a profusion of stylized flowers. Individual motifs can serve as striking spot illustrations, and dozens of borders and panels can be used as repeating patterns.

Authentic Art Deco Interiors

Authentic Art Deco Interiors
Author: Maurice Dufrène
Publisher: ACC Distribution
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1989
Genre: Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN:

The dramatic 1925 Paris Exhibition heralded the emergence of the Art Deco movement as a great decorative style. The photographs in this book were originally published in three volumes to show the rooms furnished for the exhibition. These original books are now extremely rare and expensive.

Art Nouveau: The Essential Reference

Art Nouveau: The Essential Reference
Author: Carol Belanger Grafton
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2015-10-21
Genre: Design
ISBN: 0486799832

Full-color and black-and-white works by virtually every key artist of the Art Nouveau movement, including Mucha, Seguy, Beardsley, and Verneuil. Includes material from rare books, portfolios, and major periodicals, plus bibliographies and artist biographies.

Art Deco 1910-1939

Art Deco 1910-1939
Author: Charlotte Benton
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-06-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781851778331

Originally published in 2003 as the catalog of an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Empire Style Designs and Ornaments

Empire Style Designs and Ornaments
Author: Joseph Beunat
Publisher:
Total Pages: 97
Release: 1974
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780486229843

This is a complete reprinting of one of Beunat's later and more complete catalogs, showing and again making available over 900 individual ornaments and designs. There are many repeatable linear patterns, both horizontal and vertical, for frames, friezes, dividers, furniture decoration, figures and scenes based on mythological and biblical motives, plus many more forms.