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René Herbst : pioneer of modernism / Guillemette Delaporte ; [translated from the Frenchn by David Radzinowicz].

by Delaporte-Idrissi, Guillemette.

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Paris : Flammarion : Distributed in North America by Rizzoli International Publications, c2004.

Herbst, René -- Criticism and interpretation.

Interior decoration -- France -- History -- 20th century.

Furniture design -- France -- History -- 20th century.

215 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

At the beginning of modernism -- After the great war -- Pioneers of modernity in France -- The zenith of the decorative arts -- The international scene -- René Herbst's early career -- Staging modern art -- Decorating the street -- The art of store display -- René Herbst: decoration for the street -- René Herbst: store display -- Exhibition design -- Select and persuade -- Pioneer of a new style -- furniture -- Mass production as an ingredient of progress -- René Herbst: implications of a mass-production context -- René Herbst: multipurpose furniture -- Lighting -- Steel boat cabins -- The fondation [sic.] of the UAM -- For a humane architecture -- Useful forms -- René Herbst: interior decoration and its techniques -- René Herbst: organizing the home -- Postwar reconstruction -- Interior architecture as "social art" -- Chronology -- René Herbst: the archives -- Inventory of the fonds René Herbst -- Published books by René Herbst -- Revues of decorative arts--main titles 1880-1950.

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