DECO INTERIOR DESIGN / ART MODERNE)

Good Furniture Magazine. A Business Journal of Furnishing and Decoration.

      Dean-Hicks Company, 1928. Volumes 30 and 31. Two bound volumes containing the 12 monthly issues for 1928, bound without covers or ads. Total of 30 full page color illustrations, in-text color and black and white illustrations, 342, 354pp, indices, 12 x 9 inches. The volumes are ex-library, although the only marks are two perforated stamps and a stamped number at the beginning of each volume - no external marks, no library pockets etc. Exteriors in good condition, interiors very good. These two fascinating volumes, reflecting the burgeoning interest in 'art moderne' or art deco, are particularly well endowed with color plates compared to other years of this magazine. The color plates are all renditions of designs for interiors, from a billiard room, to a 'colonial living room in novel color scheme of orchid, blue and green' to a hotel dining room. Articles include a series on rugs, including Native American rugmaking, rugs from the Scandinavian countries, art moderne rugs; an article on an 'American Exhibit of Modern Danish Art'; several articles on the new patterns in fabrics and wall paper ('Modernistic Wall-paper Designs'); 'Art Moderne for Americans: Meeting our Living Requirements without Copying Europe'; 'Modernistic Wall Hangings:Tapestries and Silk Murals from American and Germany in New Design and Color Motifs; 'Modern Lighting and Fixtures'.