A comprehensive guide to the history and culture of the artistic movement known as art deco.

work on the subject for many years to come." "With over 1,000 illustrations in colour and black-and-white." --Book Jacket.

From ancient Greece to Frank Lloyd Wright, studiola to smoking rooms, chimney boards to cocktail cabinets, and papier-mâché to tubular steel, the Encyclopedia

The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts covers thousands of years of decorative arts production throughout western and non-western culture. With over 1,000 en

Originally published in 2003 as the catalog of an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.