THE NEW INTERIOR DECORATION
Dorothy Todd and Raymond Mortimer
Dorothy Todd and Raymond Mortimer: THE NEW INTERIOR DECORATION [AN INTRODUCTION TO ITS PRINCIPLES, AND INTERNATIONAL SURVEY OF ITS METHODS]. London and New York: B. T. Batsford Ltd. and Charles Scribner's Sons, 1929. First American Edition. Orange cloth stamped in gold. Printed dust jacket designed by E. McKnight Kauffer. Color frontispiece plate. 42 pp. text, 92 photographic plates. A wonderfully preserved copy with a good example of the rare dust jacket. Jacket lightly chipped and nicked to extremities. Orange spine ink heavily sun-faded. Overall a very good or better copy.8.5 x 11.25 hardcover book with 42 pages of text and 92 photographic plates printed on matte stock by the Westminster Press [411A Harrow Road, London, W. 9]. An exceptional copy of the First American Edition of this important book on the development of Art Deco styling and a survey of the Art Deco and Bauhaus-inspired furniture, decorative art and interiors in Great Britain, Europe and the United States. The authors profile the design trends worldwide in the years following the famous Paris Exposition of 1925.
Contents:
- Color frontispiece plate "Design for a panel of mural decoration" by E. McKnight Kauffer
- Preface
- The Influence of Painting
- The Influence of Architecture
- Continental Decoration
- English and American Decoration
- Plates
- Practical Methods and Features
- Index
Includes work by Le Corbusier, Djo Bourgeois, Duncan Grant, John Banting, Walter Gropius, Rob Mallet Stevens, Andre Lurcat, Mart Stam, J. J. P. Oud, Richard J. Neutra, Richard Docker, Marcel Breuer, Hans Scharoun, Vanessa Bell, Boris Anrep, E. McKnight Kauffer, Paul Nelson, Pierre Jeanneret, Willy Baumeister, Pierre Chareau, the Bruders Rasch, Jean Frank, Adolf Rading, Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Thonet, Richard Lisker, Van Ravestyn, Denham MacLaren, William E. Lescaze, Sonia Delaunay, the Maison Myrbor, Fernand Leger, and others.
Highlights include residential interiors by Le Corbusier, Djo Bourgeois, Walter Gropius, Mallet Stevens, Andre Lurcat, Mart Stam, Richard J.Neutra, Richard Docker, Marcel Breuer, Hans Scharoun, Duncan Grant, Vanessa Bell, Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, Jean Frank, Adolf Rading, Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Richard Lisker, and William E. Lescaze; Furniture by Paul Nelson, Djo Bourgeois, Pierre Chareau, Heinz and Bodo Rasch, Mies van der Rohe, Thonet, Van Ravestyn, Denham Maclaren, and William E. Lescaze; Buildings by Walter Gropius, Mart Stam, J. J. P. Oud and Richard J.Neutra; Mural decorations by Duncan Grant and E. McKnight Kauffer; Screens painted by John Banting, Duncan Grant and Sonia Delaunay; a Mosaic by Boris Anrep; Linoleum by Willy Baumeister; Rugs designed by E.McKnight Kauffer and French carpets executed by the Maison Myrbor, Paris and designed by painter Leger and Jean Lurcat; Tiles designed by Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant; and more.
During the 1920s Vogue magazine in the UK was transformed from a society paper into a magazine of high modernism and the avant-garde under the editorial reigns of Dorothy Todd. She was sacked in 1926 because of what was perceived by Conde Nast as its bohemian direction.
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