Product Description
Discover how to recreate and restore authentic period architecture, furnishings and detailing in the Art Deco style. The elegant and sophisticated style known as Art Deco epitomises for many the inter-war years of the 1920s and 1930s. Although not strictly a style of architecture, but a surface decoration, its clean lines and stylized, symmetrical forms nonetheless influenced the design of buildings throughout the world, greatly assisted by the new industrial ma… More >>
Art Deco House Style: An Architectural and Interior Design Source Book
I ordered this book for a friend who has an Art Deco house and is planning an extension with a new kitchen. It sounded ideal but proved less than useful. It is really a historical reference for Art Deco elements which may be interesting to some but is not so useful if you want to use your house in a more modern way. The average 1930’s kitchen just does not cut it these days. This book showed original Art Deco kitchens but no new kitchens in Art Deco style. I would recommend this book to design students and ardent enthusiasts of the style but not to someone who is not so fanatical. There are better books for integrating old and new such as “Old House, New Home: Stylish Modern Living In A Period Setting”.
Rating: 2 / 5
This book was a gift for my sister who recently purchased a 1920’s home. She loved the book. It contains so many great detailed illustrations of inside and outside the Art Deco home. It will be a great reference for refurbishing her slightly run down home. It also included a list of sources for a variety of home funishings.
Rating: 5 / 5
I really like this book a lot of pictures, it is helping my to decorate my thirties house. I surely recomend it.
Rating: 5 / 5
This is a lovely book, but I bought it for the interior part and it really is mostly external architecture.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book is exactly what I was looking for! The reviews I read on amazon.com convinced me to buy it because they said it was great for someone who owned an art deco style house and they were right. I would recommend it.
Rating: 5 / 5