Tapis Du XXe Siecle

Paris: Jocelyne Le Brenn-Alain Demachy, 1999. Softcover exhibition catalog, shown at Galerie Camoin-Demachy, text is sewn and fine as are the covers; essay by Jean-Louis Gaillemin, 27 carpets shown in double-page color, some with an additional half-fold; works are described with biographical information about the designer, some have references to similair works/exhibition record for the carpet/ literary citation; carpets shown were designed by Regina Gomide Graz - Brazilian Art Deco, Emile Gaudissart, designer of rugs for E. J. Ruhlmann, Raymond Subes, who, along with Edgar Brandt, was the finest craftman in the art of decorative twentieth-century iron work, Max Laeuger, one of the founders of The Darmstadt School, Paul Haesaerts for Saedeleer, Jean Burkhalter, who worked with Robert Mallet-Stevens and Pierre Chareau, Ivan da Silva Bruhns, who was commissioned to execute rugs to accompany Jean Dunand's lacquered panels, et al; mainly French/English texts