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Explores a group of like-minded designers in France, the architects-decorateurs, who also committed themselves to designing and equipping the modern house. This title traces the development of these ideas in France from the Salons d'Automne displays of 1900 through the post-World War I period. It is of interest to art and architectural historians.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Raising Up the Bourgeois Home
--The Ordinary Supersedes the Extraordinary at the Expositions Universelles
--Structural Rationalism and the New French Home
--The Liberalization of the Bourgeois French Interior
--Domestic Themes in the Fine Arts
2. Design and Domestic Settings: The Salons D'Automne of 1910 to 1913
--1910: The German Challenge
--1911: Constructeur / Coloriste
--1912: Un Salon Bourgeois
--1913: The Good and the Well-Made Thing
3. The War, House Reconstruction, and Furniture Production
4. The End of Decorative Art, The Hour of Architecture
--Toward a Union of Modern Designers
--The End of Decorative Art
--The Hour of Architecture in France
--The Architects-Decorateurs
--French Modern Architecture
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Illustration Credits

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      Publisher: University of Washington Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/11/2006
      ISBN13: 9780295986326, 978-0295986326
      ISBN10: 0295986328
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Explores a group of like-minded designers in France, the architects-decorateurs, who also committed themselves to designing and equipping the modern house. This title traces the development of these ideas in France from the Salons d'Automne displays of 1900 through the post-World War I period. It is of interest to art and architectural historians.

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction
      1. Raising Up the Bourgeois Home
      --The Ordinary Supersedes the Extraordinary at the Expositions Universelles
      --Structural Rationalism and the New French Home
      --The Liberalization of the Bourgeois French Interior
      --Domestic Themes in the Fine Arts
      2. Design and Domestic Settings: The Salons D'Automne of 1910 to 1913
      --1910: The German Challenge
      --1911: Constructeur / Coloriste
      --1912: Un Salon Bourgeois
      --1913: The Good and the Well-Made Thing
      3. The War, House Reconstruction, and Furniture Production
      4. The End of Decorative Art, The Hour of Architecture
      --Toward a Union of Modern Designers
      --The End of Decorative Art
      --The Hour of Architecture in France
      --The Architects-Decorateurs
      --French Modern Architecture
      Afterword
      Notes
      Bibliography
      Index
      Illustration Credits

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