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Art Deco, France-North America.
BREON Emmanuel (dir.)

Art Deco, France-North America.

Norma Editions
€45,00 €0,00
N° d'inventaire 25116
Format 24 x 29
Détails 304 p., publisher's hardcover.
Publication Paris, 2021
Etat Nine
ISBN 9782376660385
With the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, Art Deco seduced the world. From New York to Paris, the press celebrated this event, which established this universal style for a long time. Crossing the Atlantic aboard sumptuous ocean liners such as the Île-de-France and Normandie, great French decorators such as Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, Jules Leleu, André Mare, Jean Dunand, and Pierre Chareau exhibited in department stores from New York to Philadelphia. From Mexico to Canada, this craze was carried by North American architects trained at the École nationale des beaux-arts in Paris from the beginning of the 20th century, then at the Art Training Center in Meudon and the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts, two art schools founded in the aftermath of the First World War, which strengthened ties between the two continents. The America of Raymond Hood and Wallace K. Harrison, authors of Rockefeller Center, adopts the French architects and artists Léon Arnal, Edgar Brandt, Jacques Carlu, Paul Cret, Alfred Janniot… The original research in this book reveals a mutual emulation that is illustrated as much in the architecture and ornamentation of skyscrapers as in cinema, fashion, the press, sports and the art of living. The new style is carried by figures such as Paul Iribe and Cecil B. DeMille, Jean Patou and Paul Poiret, Lindbergh, Costes and Bellonte, Joséphine Baker or Johnny Weissmuller. Thirty-seven texts and 350 illustrations allow us to discover the unique links that unite France and America, from Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty to the Streamline that succeeds Art Deco. This new design with flowing, curved lines emerged in the 1930s and was the star of the 1939 New York World's Fair, whose theme was "The World of Tomorrow."
With the 1925 International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts, Art Deco seduced the world. From New York to Paris, the press celebrated this event, which established this universal style for a long time. Crossing the Atlantic aboard sumptuous ocean liners such as the Île-de-France and Normandie, great French decorators such as Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, Jules Leleu, André Mare, Jean Dunand, and Pierre Chareau exhibited in department stores from New York to Philadelphia. From Mexico to Canada, this craze was carried by North American architects trained at the École nationale des beaux-arts in Paris from the beginning of the 20th century, then at the Art Training Center in Meudon and the Fontainebleau School of Fine Arts, two art schools founded in the aftermath of the First World War, which strengthened ties between the two continents. The America of Raymond Hood and Wallace K. Harrison, authors of Rockefeller Center, adopts the French architects and artists Léon Arnal, Edgar Brandt, Jacques Carlu, Paul Cret, Alfred Janniot… The original research in this book reveals a mutual emulation that is illustrated as much in the architecture and ornamentation of skyscrapers as in cinema, fashion, the press, sports and the art of living. The new style is carried by figures such as Paul Iribe and Cecil B. DeMille, Jean Patou and Paul Poiret, Lindbergh, Costes and Bellonte, Joséphine Baker or Johnny Weissmuller. Thirty-seven texts and 350 illustrations allow us to discover the unique links that unite France and America, from Bartholdi's Statue of Liberty to the Streamline that succeeds Art Deco. This new design with flowing, curved lines emerged in the 1930s and was the star of the 1939 New York World's Fair, whose theme was "The World of Tomorrow."