Patricia Bayer is the author of Art Deco Architecture. She is currently the arts editor of the Encyclopedia Americana, and is writing a collector's guide on Art Nouveau and Art Deco for Sotheby's.
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By the time of the great Paris Exhibition of 1925, the idea that an interior and its furnishings should form a complete design--a "total look"--dominated the thinking of both designers and their sophisticated clients. In the later 1920s and 1930s, whole studios were established, notably in France and the United States, to serve the needs of a design- and style-conscious middle class intent on showing off its newly refined taste for things modern and exotic: the richly lacquered screen, the tubular steel chair, the vivid geometric carpet. Art Deco Interiors documents this flourishing of design ingenuity in Europe and America. Using contemporary photographs and illustrations of interiors, juxtaposed with modern photographs
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Highly informative...a book to be relished. -- Traditional HomesThorough and intelligent. -- The World of Antiques
