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11 voters
Art Deco Books
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American Art Deco: Architecture and Regionalism (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as art-deco)
avg rating 4.19 — 72 ratings — published 2003
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as art-deco)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,943,841 ratings — published 1925
The Art Deco Style: in Household Objects, Architecture, Sculpture, Graphics, Jewelry (Dover Architecture)
by (shelved 4 times as art-deco)
avg rating 3.46 — 13 ratings — published 1972
Art Deco Architecture: Design, Decoration, and Detail from the Twenties and Thirties (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as art-deco)
avg rating 4.08 — 36 ratings — published 1992
The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-deco)
avg rating 4.25 — 28 ratings — published
Art Deco: The Golden Age of Graphic Art & Illustration (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-deco)
avg rating 4.13 — 143 ratings — published 2008
Art Deco Designs and Motifs (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
by (shelved 3 times as art-deco)
avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published 1972
Tamara de Lempicka (Taschen Basic Art)
by (shelved 3 times as art-deco)
avg rating 4.13 — 514 ratings — published 1988
Art Deco: 1910-1939 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as art-deco)
avg rating 4.19 — 99 ratings — published 2003
New Art Deco Alphabets (Dover Pictorial Archive Series)
by (shelved 2 times as art-deco)
avg rating 2.83 — 6 ratings — published 1975
The Beautiful and Damned (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-deco)
avg rating 3.73 — 65,474 ratings — published 1922
Art Deco Design Fantasies (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as art-deco)
avg rating 4.00 — 4 ratings — published 2009
The Mysterious Affair at Styles (Hercule Poirot, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as art-deco)
avg rating 4.00 — 510,696 ratings — published 1920
Cinderella: An Art Deco Love Story (Library Binding)
by (shelved 2 times as art-deco)
avg rating 4.26 — 501 ratings — published 2001
Art Deco Interiors: Decoration and Design Classics of the 1920s and 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-deco)
avg rating 3.90 — 61 ratings — published 1994
Tamara de Lempicka: A Life of Deco and Decadence (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-deco)
avg rating 3.84 — 295 ratings — published 1999
Walls Within Walls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-deco)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,742 ratings — published 2010
Essential Art Deco (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-deco)
avg rating 3.90 — 29 ratings — published 2003
Art Deco Hair: Hairstyles of the 1920s and 1930s (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-deco)
avg rating 4.07 — 41 ratings — published 2003
New York Deco (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-deco)
avg rating 4.25 — 56 ratings — published 2005
WASHINGTON DECO: Art Deco Design in the Nation's Capital (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-deco)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published 1984
Screen Deco: A Celebration of High Style in Hollywood (Architecture and Film, No. 3)
by (shelved 2 times as art-deco)
avg rating 4.26 — 43 ratings — published 1987
Bullocks Wilshire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as art-deco)
avg rating 4.33 — 6 ratings — published 1996
Art Deco Fashion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-deco)
avg rating 3.88 — 95 ratings — published 2003
Christie's Art Deco (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-deco)
avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 2000
The Art Deco House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as art-deco)
avg rating 3.71 — 48 ratings — published 2002
The Chosen and the Beautiful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 3.54 — 19,075 ratings — published 2021
The Blind Assassin (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 3.96 — 163,883 ratings — published 2000
Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,953 ratings — published 2022
Ar seiz breur (1923-1947) version bretonne la creation bretonne entre tradition et modernite + CD
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Gatsby le Magnifique (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 4.62 — 16 ratings — published
Ar seiz breur : La création bretonne entre tradition et modernité (French Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
"Quimper Cornouaille ; années 1920/1930" (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Art déco - Modernités bretonnes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Stencils: Art Deco Cut & Use Stencils (Stencils)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 3.88 — 8 ratings — published 1977
The Golden Age of Magic (Golden Age of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 3.70 — 4,661 ratings — published 2025
Fashions of a Decade: The 1920s (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 3.70 — 73 ratings — published 1991
Flappers and Philosophers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,384 ratings — published 1920
Vile Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 3.71 — 17,755 ratings — published 1930
Art Deco Los Angeles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published
Gimme Some Sugar (Southern Eclectic, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,253 ratings — published 2019
Italian Art Deco: Graphic Design between the Wars (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 4.22 — 18 ratings — published
Needlework nostalgia: A collection of authentic needlework designs from the Butterick archives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 1975
The Spirit and Splendour of Art Deco (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published 1978
Art Deco Designs in Color (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
All Color Book of Art Deco (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 3.56 — 18 ratings — published 1974
Art Deco: The Twentieth Century's Iconic Decorative Style from Paris, London, and Brussels to New York, Sydney, and Santa Monica (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 3.64 — 14 ratings — published
Art Deco Jewelry: Modernist Masterworks and their Makers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as art-deco)
avg rating 4.15 — 13 ratings — published 2009
“As I’ve said before, “the Mod generation”, contrary to popular belief, was not born in even 1958, but in the 1920s after a steady gestation from about 1917 or so. Now, Mod certainly came of age, fully sure of itself by 1958, completely misunderstood by 1963, and in a perpetual cycle of reinvention and rediscovery of itself by 1967 and 1975, respectively, but it was born in the 1920s, and I will maintain this. I don’t care who disagrees with me, and there are dozens of reasons that I do so —from the Art Deco aesthetic, to flapper fashions (complete with bobbed hair), to androgyny and subtle effeminacy, to jazz.”
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“Instantly, who knows from where, angels small in stature, followed by swifts, flitted out and started tracing patterns above Brother Mocius while chiming in. Eagles, their white beards loosed to the wind, stooped, screeching. Swarms of fierce bees streaked by, obedient and humming; diverse butterflies swishes, vipers crawled from their dens, whistling, and hyenas leapt out, sobbing and weeping. Howl, peep, roar, flutter. Everything was keening. Even the humble gentian and saxifrage, customarily dumb, as is meet for plants, contributed a barely audible squeak, not to mention the slender lizards, darting in with their hatchlings”
― Rapture: A Novel
― Rapture: A Novel












