New Backgrounds for a New Age

E-036: Harcourt, Brace and Co. Good. 1927. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Harcourt, Brace and Company. 1927. 225 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in half cloth boards and batik paper covered boards and paper label present to the spine. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (light chipping present to the crown of the spine). Light foxing present. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Survey of advanced tendencies in contemporary American applied arts and architecture, as influenced by the 1925 Paris Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes, with discussion of work by leading American decorators and craftsmen. A key text on American Art Deco. Contents: The Meaning of "Style"; Decorative Art in Europe - William Morris to 1926; American Esthetics Today; Industrial Democracy and Art; The Tempo of Modern Art; Education; Discovering the New Beauty; Steel, Concrete, and Terra Cotta; Modern American Decorators and Craftsman (two chapters) ; Possibilities in Decoration; The Future. Designers include Winold Reiss, Paul Zimmerman (interiors) , Paul Frankl (furniture) , Hunt Diedrich and Henry Varnum Poor (pottery) , Cheney silks, Nina Vasselevsky (wallpaper designs) ; etc. E-36; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .