3 Volumes. Source books for Art and design. Colour and BW illustrated. The Decorative Art series,  6  volumes  spanning the 20th century  to 1970s, carefully reproduces the best of Studio Magazine\'s Decorative Art yearbook.  Published annually from 1906 until 1980, the yearbook was dedicated to the latest currents in architecture, interiors, furniture, lighting, glassware, textiles, metalware, and ceramics. Since the publication went out of print, the now hard-to-find yearbooks have become highly prized by collectors and dealers.   Preserving the yearbooks\' original page layouts, Taschen\'s new Decorative Art books bring you an authentic experience of each decade\'s design trends and styles.  Decorative Art 1900s & 1910\'s highlights the exciting period that marked the aesthetic transition from the Victorian Era to the Modern Age. Concepts of simplicity, utility and beauty ushered out the heavy ornamentation of High Victorian style.  Avant-garde work of designers such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Charles Voysey, and Mackay Hugh Baillie Scott.A time when \"modern\" was  a new concept,  that many designers had to fight for; the evolution of styles and ideas moved at fast pace, punctuated dramatically by the First World War, whose effects on society and architecture were vast. Reproduces the best examples from the yearbooks of the 1900s and 1910s, bringing you an excellent guide through the founding years of Modernism in decorative art. Decorative Art 1920s  the Roaring Twenties, a time of great optimism and technological progress  saw the birth of new materials and styles in building and design.  Art Deco , a great departure from Art Nouveau, surfaced in the early 20s, influenced by Futurism, Cubism, Neo-Classicism, and Egyptian and African Art.  Art Deco, flaunting excess and luxury, largely dominated the style of the 1920s, another new movement, Modernism, began to make itself known towards the end of the decade. Materials such as concrete, plate glass, and tubular metal were beginning to appear; following the dictum \"form follows function\", utilitarian simplicity and classic geometry were the Modernists\' driving principles, as seen in the work of Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van de Rohe, to name a few. Decorative Art 1960s The \"Swinging Sixties\" were years of unprecedented experimentation in architecture and design, during which new materials and increasingly casual ways of living helped fuel the evolution of extraordinary forms. Taschen\'s reprint of highlights from the Decorative Art yearbooks of the 196os offers a fascinating overview of this often audacious process. From Space Age buildings to Craft Revival ceramics, Decorative Art captures the stylistic diversity of this remarkable decade. All 3 books in clean condition, no inscriptions