Les Decorateurs des Annees 40

By Bruno Foucart and Jean-Louis Gaillemin
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A coffee table reference book that gives a lot of bang for your buck.

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I love 20th-century design from Art Deco to post-war French and this is a key interior design text, a furniture reference book - Les Decorateurs des Annees 40. It’s genius. It covers all those designers in France who have influenced every modern decorator; these designers who have given incredible stimulus to design. You will recognise the pieces, like the iron work of Gilbert Poillerat – just wonderful. It goes from the neo classical and art deco to more contemporary lines. You get a lot of bang for your buck here. It is a great coffee table book or reference book or gift. If you’re a real nerd like me it’s got a fantastic bibliography and you can go on to study the work of other wonderful designers.

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Guy Oliver, Managing Director of design and decoration company Oliver Laws, is one of Britain’s foremost interior designers.  Having worked on everything from luxury yachts to English country houses, he takes a break from renovating the famed Princeton Club in New York to talk to FiveBooks about the best works on interior design.