Paris, Albert Lévy, 1926. Folio (32.6 x 25.2 cm). Half-title, title page, [vii] pp. (preface and contents leaf); 50 full-colour plates. Original printed portfolio in silver and red.

Preface by the editor, the renowned French art historian Léon Deshairs (1874-1967). He was professor of art history at the École du Louvre and during the 1920's both editor-in-chief of the magazine, Art et Décoration and chief editor at the publishing house, Éditions Rieder. This colourful work shows interior designs by the foremost French Art Deco designers of the 1920's, as shown at the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, 1925, including, e.g., René Lalique, Maurice Dufrene, Marcel Damas, and Madeleine Sougez. Some, mostly minimal staining at one edge, a bit more so, but still strictly marginal in Plates 41 and 43. Otherwise in excellent condition. Neither in Evers, Ornamentale Vorlagenwerke, nor in Schneider-Henn, Ornament und Dekoration.