This book celebrates vintage handkerchief florals with their profusion of bouquets, borders, nosegays, garlands, sprays, scrolls, dots and overall floral designs.
Art Deco's attraction is as magnetic today as in its earliest appearance in France, showcased eventually at the Exposition des Arts Decoratifs held in Paris in 1925. We may think we know the parameters of this avant-garde design genre, from the superb Chrysler Building to Florida's South Beach architecture to the designs inspired by Cubism and African, Aztec and Mayan art. This book, however, will surprise and delight the reader with its wealt...
Designs culled from the Arts and Crafts movement in America and England as well as a few from France, Italy and elsewhere from the late 19th century to the 1920's.
One of the great discoveries of the Middle Ages was the beauty of the natural world. Earlier the life of warfare and danger had blunted appreciation of nature. Now the enclosed garden represented more than a safe place away from strife.
