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Designed for Delight: Alternative Aspects of Twentieth-Century Decorative Arts

by Flammarion; Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts

No Edition

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Book description: France: Flammarion, 1997. No Edition. Hard Cover. As New/As New. Photographs, Drawings. Presented in these pages are over 200 works from the collection of the Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, in all media, focusing particularly on four aspects of the decorative arts: Body Language, Inversion and Transformation, Is Ornament a Crime?, and Flights of Fantasy. The last category demonstrates how twentieth-century artists and designers incorporated the fantastic and even the irrational in their work. This is a beautiful book with full-color photographs depicting all types of fun designs of everything from a fish fork with the face of a fish, to furniture that imitates people. I found it hard to put down once I started paging through it. The binding is black with blue lettering pressed in on the cover and spine. 320 pages including notes and an index. The endpapers are purple. This is a heavy oversized book, > 4.5 lbs. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

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