Art Deco (Dk Collector's Guides) - Hardcover

Miller, Judith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 075661337X ISBN 13: 9780756613372

Publisher: DK, 2005

Synopsis

A full-color visual reference to Art Deco traces the history of the movement from its origins to its diverse representations in twentieth-century art, discussing the characteristics of the art and some of its leading practitioners, and includes helpful buyer's tips, more than one thousand photographs, and an authoritative price guide to hundreds of items, including posters, furniture, accessories, metalwork, and more.

About this title

About the Author:

Judith Miller's expert knowledge and advice is regularly featured in newspapers and magazines, including the London Evening Standard and BBC Homes & Antiques. She is founder of the new DK Antiques and Collectables Price Guides, and the DK Collector's Guide series. Her television work includes The House Detectives, The Antiques Trail and It's Your Bid. Judith Miller lives in North London.

From Booklist:

Art deco is one of the more recent design styles but also one of the most influential. Art deco is given a renewed positioning and a massive one-source reference in this collector's guide, authored by a British antiques expert, with the aid of a coauthor. As to be expected, the visuals are superb, providing a magnificent perspective on art deco inspirations for furniture, textiles, glass, ceramics, jewelry, silver- and metalware, sculpture, and posters and graphics. Far more than a list, a photographic gallery, and a narrative, every page yields valuable information, whether it's about an unknown designer, unusual facts to know, and even auction-price estimates. A colorful appreciation of and guidelines to the marriage of art and industry in the 1920s and 1930s. Glossary, directory of dealers and auction houses and their source codes, and directory of museums appended. Barbara Jacobs
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

About this edition

• Publisher: DK
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 075661337X
• ISBN 13: 9780756613372
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240