Format:
264 pages
,
farbig
,
17 x 24 cm
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
1616893133
,
9781616893132
Content:
"For more than four decades, Fili has strolled picturesque Parisian rues and boulevards with map and camera, cataloging the work of generations of sign craftsmen. Graphique de la Rue is Fili's photographic diary of hundreds of Paris's most inventive restaurant, shop, hotel, street, and advertising signs. Classic neon cafe signs are juxtaposed with the dramatic facades of the Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergeere. Colorful mosaics cheerfully announce hotel entrances, department stores, fishmongers, even public toilets. Hector Guimard's legendary entrances to the Paris Metro stations brush elbows with graceful gold-leaf and dimensional Art Deco, Futurist, or Art Nouveau architectural lettering, as well as whimsical pictorial signs (giant eyeglasses announce optiques, and oversized hanging shears indicate a knife and scissors maker). A major influence on Fili's own work, many of these masterpieces of vernacular design, now destroyed, live on solely in this book, a typographic love letter to Paris sure to inspire designers and armchair travelers alike."--from the publisher
Note:
Introduction
,
Classique
,
Les Écritures
,
Les mosaïques
,
Art déco
,
Éclectique
,
Les monogrammes
,
Le Métro
,
La Rue
,
L'architecture
,
Sans mots
,
Les photos
,
Merci
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Paris
;
Typografie
;
Öffentlicher Raum
;
Firmenschild
;
Mosaik
;
Paris
;
Typografie
;
Öffentlicher Raum
;
Firmenschild
;
Mosaik
;
Bildband
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Bildband
Author information:
Fili, Louise 1951-
