American Art Deco

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American
Art Deco
EVA WEBER
With 90 full-color and 8 black-and-white illustrations
Mention art deco and you evoke the glamour of the Jaz; Age, the sight of luxurious railroad cars and ocean liners, and the impressive zigzag-style skyscrapers. Art deco is a distinctive modernist style that took its name from the Exposition Internationale des Art Decoratifs et In-dustriels Modernes held in Paris in 1925. The popularity of art deco during the 1920s and 1930s influenced modernist designers in many fields: ceramics, textiles, interiors, glassware, furniture, as well as architecture.
The artistic, social, political and technological events of the times were incorporated into the imagery of art deco. In the roaring twenties both the glorification of technology and the frivolity of the flapper decade were celebrated in art deco design. Seen most notably in New York City's Chrysler and Empire State buildings, the jazzy art deco style known as skyscraper or zigzag abounded until 1931.... Tovább

Fülszöveg

American
Art Deco
EVA WEBER
With 90 full-color and 8 black-and-white illustrations
Mention art deco and you evoke the glamour of the Jaz; Age, the sight of luxurious railroad cars and ocean liners, and the impressive zigzag-style skyscrapers. Art deco is a distinctive modernist style that took its name from the Exposition Internationale des Art Decoratifs et In-dustriels Modernes held in Paris in 1925. The popularity of art deco during the 1920s and 1930s influenced modernist designers in many fields: ceramics, textiles, interiors, glassware, furniture, as well as architecture.
The artistic, social, political and technological events of the times were incorporated into the imagery of art deco. In the roaring twenties both the glorification of technology and the frivolity of the flapper decade were celebrated in art deco design. Seen most notably in New York City's Chrysler and Empire State buildings, the jazzy art deco style known as skyscraper or zigzag abounded until 1931. Then, with the economic depression years of the 1930s, the thriftier and less extravagant streamline and classical moderne styles came to the forefront.
Many of art deco's greatest practitioners worked in several media to produce exuberant buildings with seductive art deco interiors. Frank Lloyd Wright, Ely Jacques Kahn, and Eliel Saarinen were just a few of the architects who produced bold and vital art deco designs. This volume exquisitely reproduces the rich heritage of art deco design, from Sidney Waugh's glassware for Steuben Glass and Grant Wood's paintings to Donald Deskey's interiors in Radio City Music Hall and William Van Alen's Chrysler Building. Vissza