Art Deco

Astoundingly detailed drawings of twelve of London's finest art deco buildiings.

Although usually associated with the 1920s and '30s, the Art Deco style had already begun to emerge in France prior to the First World War. Art Deco design is redolent of the Jazz Age, conjuring images of society cocktail parties, the Charleston and Hollywood in this great but doomed era of excess. This book deals with Art Deco.

Shows the creativity of the architects and designers of the period, as well as the currents in the city's culture that helped shape their work. This title sheds light on the key features of the Art Deco style and more.

A study of the impact of Austrian-born architect and designer Joseph Urban (1872-1933) on the development and acceptance of American Modernism through the story of one of his last commissions, the Art Deco bedroom he created for the teenage Elaine Wormser.

An architectural journey through the three most significant decades 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s of urban development in Doha, Qatar, since the oil discovery.

Endlessly influential, each stage of the Art Deco movement is meticulously chronicled in this grand visual history by art consultant and writer Alastair Duncan.