Jourdain

"Documenting the French design artistry of three generations of the Jourdain Family, this book presents Parisian design for over one hundred years. The book's primary focus is Frantz Jourdain (1847-1935) who was a leading practitioner of Art Nouveau architecture and championed the renewal of singularly French traditions of decoration. His ideas on adornment and embellishment helped to preserve Paris as a citadel of taste & luxury in the early twentieth century." Massive coffee table book in English. A beautiful production. Edouard Schenck, Henri Sauvage, Charles Sarazin, Eugene Grasset, Auguste Perret, Robert Mallet-Stevens, Pierre Chareau, etc. 414 pages with index, illustrated throughout.