Victoria Charles

This book is about the Paris Exhibition of 1925, but almost all of the illustrations are of art deco examples in general. (Some of these, such as a Chinese-themed Tiffany desk clock, are stunning, however.) This disconnect, and the sort of 'artsy' tone of the text, which manages to sound almost contemporary to the exhibition itself, make for an only intermittently satisfying read (and look). But they will have you searching the web for more pictures and explanation. Of course, how sad to think that the hope-driven exhibition, full of all this artistic expression in 1925, shortly after the end of World War I, was only a brief interlude in the march to the even greater horrors of Word War II.… (altro)