[1ST ED] André Sornay: 1902-2000
Monograph on French modernist master Andre Sornay, whose career designing furniture, lighting, and interiors spanned the Art Deco period through the mid-century. Sornay’s geometrically pure, harmoniously proportioned, practical, and withal affordable designs combined traditional and modern materials: precious woods and inlays, permeated products, rubber, Duco lacquer, metal. Somewhat of a regional figure early in his career, Sornay nonetheless exhibited at two major Parisian exhibitions in his lifetime (1925, 1937) and his work is in demand internationally today. First edition, hardcover, published by Beau Fixe in 2002, with text in French by Thierry Roche. Fully illustrated in both color and black-and-white. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.
Monograph on French modernist master Andre Sornay, whose career designing furniture, lighting, and interiors spanned the Art Deco period through the mid-century. Sornay’s geometrically pure, harmoniously proportioned, practical, and withal affordable designs combined traditional and modern materials: precious woods and inlays, permeated products, rubber, Duco lacquer, metal. Somewhat of a regional figure early in his career, Sornay nonetheless exhibited at two major Parisian exhibitions in his lifetime (1925, 1937) and his work is in demand internationally today. First edition, hardcover, published by Beau Fixe in 2002, with text in French by Thierry Roche. Fully illustrated in both color and black-and-white. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.
Monograph on French modernist master Andre Sornay, whose career designing furniture, lighting, and interiors spanned the Art Deco period through the mid-century. Sornay’s geometrically pure, harmoniously proportioned, practical, and withal affordable designs combined traditional and modern materials: precious woods and inlays, permeated products, rubber, Duco lacquer, metal. Somewhat of a regional figure early in his career, Sornay nonetheless exhibited at two major Parisian exhibitions in his lifetime (1925, 1937) and his work is in demand internationally today. First edition, hardcover, published by Beau Fixe in 2002, with text in French by Thierry Roche. Fully illustrated in both color and black-and-white. Light bumping and rubbing to extremities.
