Twentieth-Century Ornament by Jonathan M Woodham

Large heavy hardback published in 1990 by Studio Vista.

Comprehensive survey & source book of twentieth-century design for designers students & social historians, with ornamentation in a wide range of products and areas of consumer society. Traces the developments in detail, decade by decade showing that for every influence from fine art there was a countervailing popular tradition, often of nostalgia, sometimes of conscious nationalism.  The work of major and influential designers is fully discussed but so also is the anonymous vernacular - kitchen equipment, popular furnishings and tableware.

336 pages profusely illustrated. Light rubbing to jacket.