Moderne: Fashioning the French Interior
by Sarah Schleuning 
Before colour photography in magazines there was the pochoir. Moderne is a catalogue of these sumptuous hand-coloured stencil brochures favoured by French designers of the 1920s. With the likes of Jacques-Émile Ruhlmann, Pierre Chareau, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Charlotte Perriand, and Eileen Gray represented this really is required reading.
More than two hundred plates, selected by Sarah Schleuning, a curator of the Wolfsonian Museum, and faithfully reproduced to preserve their original color palettes.
Sunday, 13 April 2008
Back to basics
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6 comments:
The coloring of these sketches is amazing. How lovely.
It's a beautiful reference book.
I really must read this book. Wasn't that a stylish period!
Very, very, very swell, HOBAC! The last image looks precisely like a photograph. And the purple/fuschia office is pretty divine (a room for a fashion-magazine editor in chief surely rather than a titan of industry, don't you think?).
As with fashion illustration a la Gruau, I wish there was more of this sort of thing.
So glad everyone liked this book. It really gives an opportunity to re-examine what modern means, or can mean as it was intended.
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