Art deco furniture: The French designers - Hardcover

Duncan, Alastair

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0500234124 ISBN 13: 9780500234129

Publisher: Thames and Hudson, 1984

Synopsis

Surveys the careers of the influential French designers of furniture in the art deco style during the 1920s and 1930s

About this title

About the Author:

Alastair Duncan was for fourteen years associated with Christie's, New York, latterly as a Consultant. After joining the auction house in 1977, he organized and catalogued a great number of sales devoted to Art Nouveau and Art Deco and nineteenth-century decorative arts. He has acted as guest curator for exhibitions at the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and is now an independent consultant specializing in the decocrative arts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of many books, including Art Deco Furniture, Art Nouveau Furniture, American Art Deco, and Masterworks of Louis Comfort Tiffany.

Review:

Lavishly illustrated...an invaluable book. -- Antique Collector

Well-researched...very useful as a reference. -- House and Garden

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0500234124
• ISBN 13: 9780500234129
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192