Hardcover
2002 · San Francisco
by Day, Susan
San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2002. Hardcover. VG/VG. Black boards with stamped lettering. Glossy color-illustrated dust jacket with navy lettering. 224 pp. 250 illustrations, 149 in full color. "In 1927, the critic Rene Chavance identified carpet production as the most successful of the decorative arts in achieving 'the more visionary aims of the times'. Susan Day's book, a work of original scholarship accompanied throughout by illustrations both of the carpets themselves and of contemporary interiors, demonstrates that these Art Deco carpets have lost none of their decorative power. A significant number of the carpets are shown precisely as they (truncated)