Title: L'Art de vivre : decorative arts and design in France, 1789-1989 /
Authors: Arminjon, Catherine.; Cooper-Hewitt Museum.
Publisher: Vendome Press : Cooper-Hewitt Museum, the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Design : Distributed in the United States and Canada by Rizzoli International,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Decorative arts France Themes, motives.; Design France Themes, motives.
Contents: Two centuries of French style / David R. McFadden -- National, international, and universal expositions and the French Decorative arts / Yvonne Brunhammer -- Les grands magasins / Suzanne Tise -- Domestic elegance: the French at home / Madeleine Deschamps -- The art of dining / Catherine Arminjon -- French taste in fashion: myth and reality / France Grand -- Bijouterie and joaillerie / Evelyne Possémé -- Forty years of French design / Raymond Guidot.