Les Beaux-arts et les arts décoratifs
Les Beaux-arts et les arts décoratifs is a French survey of art and decorative arts published in Paris in 1900 by the Gazette des beaux-arts, tied to the Exposition universelle of that year and written for an art-literate public. The pictures are black-and-white halftone and line reproductions: a carved stone figure on a building facade, a stationery shop installation under a PAPETERIE arch, a bust pedestal engraved with an inscription, and a painted portrait of a man at an easel. A designer could take from them the period's ornamental stonework, shopfront and kiosk display design, and the formal portrait pose.
