1000 MASTERPIECES OF DECORATIVE ART

From ancient Sumerian pottery to Tiffany stained glass, decorative art had been a fundamental part of the human experience for gener ations. While fine art is confined to galleries and museums, decorative art is the art of the every day, combining beauty with funct ionality in objects ranging from the prosaic to the fantastical. In this work, authors Albert Jacquemart and Émile Bayard celebrate the beauty and artistic potential behind even the most quotidian object. Readers will walk away from this text with a newfound appre ciation f...[Read more]