Revue des arts décoratifs
Revue des arts décoratifs is a Paris periodical of 1881 issued by the Union centrale des beaux-arts appliqués à l'industrie and the Musée des arts décoratifs, aimed at designers and manufacturers. Its plates are photographic and lithographic studies of decorative objects: turned wooden balusters and spindles in a grid of profiles, a pair of fowl photographed in grey tones, and coloured plates of glassware, a gilt-mounted vase and a jewelled pendant with a pedestal stand. A designer could draw on the repeated silhouettes of turned wood and the gilded, faceted forms of the glass pieces.
