A 10TH ANNIVERSARY SALE BOOK Art Deco and Modernist CarpetsNote from Charmaine: Why carry a book on 1930a carpets in a bookstore on alternative housebuilding? Because the very cool, blocky color designs of the carpet art from this period can be easily transferred to paint, or TILES and making tiled floors with salvage or scrap tiles. True, you have to be a creative "out of the box" thinker...but leftover, broken, or discontinued patterned tiles are great for low cost floor options. Even garden or outdoor areas can benefit by using tiles, slates, pebbles in a creative manner. I know from experience after collecting leftover and discontinued tiles and cast-offs for three years that USING them in the best layout is the real challenge! And this book has great designs for transfer to a tile or even as painted floor artistry. The design revolutions of the early 20th century touched every facet of the decorator's art, including the carpets and rugs of that era. This beautifully illustrated book charts the evolution of carpet design away from the floral effusions of the Victorian salons into the angular elegance of Art Deco and the bold abstraction of Modernism that were popularized in the machine age. Such artists and designers as Picasso, Poiret, Gray, Delaunay, Matisse, and Klee advanced the designs going on underfoot, making these rugs extremely collectible artworks in their own right. The 250 color and black and white photographs here reveal Art Deco and Modernist carpets at their most glorious, whether in full, in detail, or in situ. ISBN: 0811836134 Authors: Susan Day, ,Pages/Length: 224, ,Publisher: Chronicle, ,Publication Date: 2002, Format: Cloth, Primary Subject: design/style ONE NEW COPY IN STOCK- HARDBACK, OVERSIZE, COLOR DUST JACKET, AND INTERIOR. Oversize book requires $10. Priority Mail BOX to ship, will not fit the $5. envelope. Media Mail cost is the same $4.00 |