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, craftsmen and decorative-arts manufacturers. Its plates reproduce objects and prints: a figural candlestick topped by an angel and a jewelled dagger, a rapier with paired hilt ornaments, and a sacred frontispiece showing a figure of God above an angel and a veiled woman. A designer might take from them the engraved metalwork ornament, the balance of figure and scrollwork in ceremonial objects, and the framed classical composition of the title plate.
