Erté
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DESCRIPTION:
Beautiful visitors book. Embossed cover with gold rimmed pages. Inside pages have seperate boxes for date, name and comment.
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Erté (Romain de Tirtoff, 23 November 1892 – 21 April 1990) was a Russian-born French artist and designer. He was a diversely talented 20th-century artist and designer who flourished in an array of fields, including fashion, jewellery, graphic arts, costume and set design for film, theatre, and opera, and interior decor.
In 1913, he designed costumes for Mata Hari; in 1980 he designed costumes for Glyndebourne. Everything he did in-between was accomplished with the imagination and originality of a fresh vision, and the immaculate detailed execution of an acute eye and steady hand.
He changed fashion and theatrical design irrevocably. Every prophecy of his came true. When in 1926 he created unisex costumes he was forty years ahead of a universal fashion to come. Men should stop looking like headwaiters, he advised all those years ago, and so it came to pass.
His output was vast and varied - dresses, accessories of every kind, film and theater costumes and sets, furniture and interiors, jewellery and luggage.
CONDITION:
New. Cover has residue of original price sticker top left. Can be peeled off. Back cover has slight shelf wear in places. 1 in stock as of Nov. 2015.
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