Overview
A sprawling compendium of Art Deco design from across Europe, Euro Deco features a broad range of exemplary graphic ephemera. Culled from Steven Heller and Louise Fili's popular International Deco series of inspirational reference books, the material in Euro Deco comes from Italy, Spain, the UK, Germany, France, and the Netherlands, primarily between WWI and WWII -- the time when the continent gave birth to modern graphic design. Well over a thousand images from posters, packaging, advertisements, menus, and brochures display the elegant geometry and harmonious marriage of typography and illustration that make deco a popular style to this day. A generous package at an attractive price, Euro Deco is poised to be a standard graphic resource for designers, collectors, and aesthetes alike.Synopsis
A sprawling compendium of Art Deco design from across Europe, Euro Deco features a broad range of exemplary graphic ephemera. Culled from Steven Heller and Louise Fili's popular International Deco series of inspirational reference books, the material in Euro Deco comes from Italy, Spain, the UK, Germany, France, and the Netherlands, primarily between WWI and WWII -- the time when the continent gave birth to modern graphic design. Well over a thousand images from posters, packaging, advertisements, menus, and brochures display the elegant geometry and harmonious marriage of typography and illustration that make deco a popular style to this day. A generous package at an attractive price, Euro Deco is poised to be a standard graphic resource for designers, collectors, and aesthetes alike.
Library Journal
Heller (senior art director, New York Times) and graphic designer Fili (president, Louise Fili Ltd.) have collected their previous coauthored books on graphic design into a compendium that packs more than 1200 images into 500 pages and provides as exhaustive an overview of the history of Art Deco as one could ever hope to find. Between World War I and World War II, Art Deco managed to sustain a wide appeal across many cultural and social boundaries, making it one of the most universally admired and commercially viable design aesthetics of the 20th century. This volume provides detailed references and hours of entertainment for students of design, history, and popular culture alike. Each chapter introduces a country and then describes the nature of the Art Deco movement there. Recommended for anyone with an extensive fine arts and/or applied art collection and libraries with an emphasis on European history.-Phil Hamlett, Acad. of Art Univ., San Francisco Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.