Antique Art Nouveau and Art Deco Silver - Types Origins / Scarce Book

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Over 300 black-and-white photographs, 25 plates in full-color, and an in-depth section on marks and hallmarks complement a rich narrative which reviews the history and production of collectible silver of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods.
ART NOUVEAU AND ART DECO SILVER
.  By Annelies Krekel-Aalberse, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., NY, 1989.
This scarce book presents a neglected side of Art Nouveau and Art Deco decorative creations—those in silver.  The in-depth narrative and profuse illustrations make this book an invaluable resource reference work.   “Annelies Krekel-Aalberse is curator of the silver collection at Van Kempen and Begeer, a leading Dutch firm of silversmiths.  In this groundbreaking study, she analyzes and compares the work of all the most important designers and silver smiths of the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods in Great Britain, Holland, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, the Scandinavian countries, Russia and the United States.  She shows the broad division between those who revived the silversmith’s hand craftsmanship, adding new ornaments to old and proven shapes and later developing new styles, and those who foresaw a future in which machinery was indispensable, yielding new and appropriate forms for modern life.  Both groups defied the conventional—which continued to dominate international taste—to produce objects whose extraordinary qualities are fully appreciated only today.  They included among their number not only trained silversmiths who created their own designs but also painters and architects whose designs were executed in the leading silver workshops.  More than 300 objects are shown here, many for the first time, in superb reproductions accompanied by detailed descriptions and by documentary illustrations of contemporary interiors.  Biographies of individual silversmiths and designers, short histories of silver firms, information on exhibition catalogues and magazines, as well as a bibliography and a comprehensive pictorial guide to hundreds of makers’ designers’, and retailers’ marks and the hallmarks of different countries all combine to make this the indispensable book on Art Nouveau and Art Deco silver.”
9.25” x 11.5” hardback with dust cover in very good condition.   272 pages.
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