Sirat, Jacques & Francoise Siriex
Tapis Francais du XXe Siecle : de l'art Nouveau aux Creations Contemporaines
Paris: Editions de l'Amateur, 1993

First edition. Quarto. 237 pp; color illustrations throughout; bibliography. Text in French. Cloth with dustjacket. VG/Near Fine, small loss at top edge of pp 121-132 else a near fine copy; jacket has no visible wear. A well-illustrated chronological survey of 20th century of French carpets, including Art Nouveau, Art Deco, as well as paquebots.
Inventory number #013919

Uecker, Wolf
Art Nouveau and Art Deco Lamps and Candlesticks
NY: Abbeville Press, 1986

First American edition. Quarto. 280 pp; illustrated with color and b/w photographs throughout; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Very good in VG jacket.
Inventory number #011593

Praz, Mario
AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF INTERIOR DECORATION from Pompeii to Art Nouveau
NY: Thames and Hudson, 2008

Quarto. 396 pp; 64 color & 336 b/w illustrations; index. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine. This wonderfully rich collection of paintings and watercolors, mostly dating from 1770 to 1860, and coming from all over Europe, Russia and America, provides an indispensable reference source of the details of the domestic interior.
Inventory number #008197

Aguttes, Claude
ART NOUVEAU & ART DECO Hotel des Ventes de Neuilly. 1er Juillet 2003
Neuilly-sur-seine: Claude Aguttes, 2003

Quarto. 97 pp. 449 lots, illustrated with color photographs. Paperback. Near Fine, a clean, unmarked copy.
Inventory number #007428

Zamperini, Alessandra
ORNAMENT AND THE GROTESQUE: Fantastical Decoration from Antiquity to Art Nouveau
NY: Thames & Hudson, 2008

First English edition. Small folio. 308 pp; 242 color illustrations; glossary; bilbiography; indices. Cloth with dustjacket. Fine/Fine, a new, unused copy. A lavish survey of the grotesque style in European painting and decoration, from Roman times to the late 19th century. Grotesques consist of loosely connected motifs, often incorporating human figures, birds, animals, and monsters, and arranged around medallions filled with painted scenes. They were a fashionable form of ornamentation in ancient Rome; in the 17th and 18th centuries grotesque decoration was transformed into arabesque, chinoiserie, and singeries, and how it continued in the nineteenth century, leading eventually to Art Nouveau.
Inventory number #007078

Christie's
FINE ART NOUVEAU AND ART DECO, Saturday, March 31, 1984
NY: Christie's, 1984

Quarto. 160 pp; 476 lots, many illustrated in color; bibliography. Paperback. VG. Many fine pieces of furniture, art glass, Tiffany lamps, Lalique glass, silver, jewelry, book bindings, and posters. Includes a lacquered wood panel by Jean Dunand for Mme. Jacoubovitch, Paris; and a rare enameled-silver and glass table lamp by Jean Goulden.
Inventory number #004850