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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Pages in good condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> First published in 1971 The Decorative Thirties is the companion volume to Martin Battersby’s enormously successful The Decorative Twenties. Battersby’s qualifi- cations as a historian of the thirties were impeccable. His career as an interior designer began during the decade and he knew personally several of the major English artists and designers of the time. In this book he discusses the work of among others Emile- Jacques Ruhlmann Jean-Michel Frank Eug?ne Berman Schiaparelli Rex Whistler and Paul Frankl. This was a time of extraordinary diversity of taste in the decorative arts-ceramics fabrics fashion jewelry graphics. The stark simplicity of fodernism existed side by side with neo-Baroque and neo- Victorian revivals the neo-Romantics found favour with their charming and fantastical work and the Surrealists ran anthropomorphical riot. The ingenuity of designers was put to the test by the range of their clients’ demands by the need to design for a less affluent market during the Depression and by the challenge of working with new materials such as plywood and tubular metal. Martin Battersby’s thorough groundwork and research are enlivened in this important study by his discrimination as a collector and decorator.