RUHLMANN: MASTER OF ART DECO
Florence Camard

Florence Camard: RUHLMANN: MASTER OF ART DECO. NYC: Abrams, 1984. First English-language edition. A fine hardcover book in a fine dust jacket: truly a collectors copy. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print and pretty scarce.

9.25 x 12.25 hardcover book with 312 pages and 487 illlustrations, including 67 plates in color.This is still the major reference work on the renowned French modernist architect and interior designer Jacques-Emile Ruhlmann. Known as "The Master of Art Deco", Ruhlmann created opulent, exquisitely designed furniture, homes and showrooms for the Parisian beau monde in the twenties and thirties.

Excellent English translation of the 1983 Paris monograph (Paris: Editions Du Regard, 1983) on one of the greatest and most prolific Art Deco cabinetmakers and interior designers of the twentieth century. Translated by David Macey.

Florence Camard, specialist in the decorative arts from 1890 to 1930, teaches at the Center for the Study of the Art Object in Paris.

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