ART DECO FURNITURE

The Art Deco movement - with its emphasis on up-to-date individuality combined with good taste, fine materials and exquisite workman ship - became all the rage in France. Other countries produced their own versions of the style, but in furniture especially, the Fre nch predominated: the world had not seen such creative design for 125 years/ on the one hand, the virtuoso cabinet-making of Ruhlman n, on the other, the brilliant originality of Gray and Legrain. Alastair Duncan introduces us to the work of over eighty architects, furnitu...[Read more]