Art Deco House Style: An Architectural and Interior Design Source Book

by Ingrid Cranfield

Book Overview

Deco swept into popularity in the 1920s. It determined the shape and style of many houses built between the wars: clean lines, bright colours and modern industrial materials. This richly illustrated source book celebrates the quintessential style of the machine age and the golden years of jazz. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071531744X
• ISBN13: 9780715317440
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: David & Charles
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.9" x 10.2"

Customer Reviews

Mostly exterior

This is a lovely book, but I bought it for the interior part and it really is mostly external architecture.

Middle Class Art Deco

Many of the Art Deco reference books are very high quality "coffee table" productions that highlite museum quality Art Deco creations. They are fantastic books but as the owner of middle class Art Deco home, I know that objects presented in these books are way beyond my economic means. I can admire them but never afford these iconic art pieces. The beauty of Ingrid Cranfield's "Art Deco House Style" is that it concentrates on more modest homes and interiors. Nearly every page is filled with period photographs of house exteriors, furniture and other household objects. At $16 new or $10 used, this is a very reasonably priced reference book more suitable for the book shelf than the coffee table. A good value and highly recommended for the regular person with a 1930's home.

Very Nice

I really like this book a lot of pictures, it is helping my to decorate my thirties house. I surely recomend it.

Great book with wonderful illustrations

This book was a gift for my sister who recently purchased a 1920's home. She loved the book. It contains so many great detailed illustrations of inside and outside the Art Deco home. It will be a great reference for refurbishing her slightly run down home. It also included a list of sources for a variety of home funishings.