Architectes Décorateurs Belges 1920-1930

Deprived of the opportunity to commission luxury furniture (a French monopoly) and mass production (the stronghold of Germany and Austria), the Belgian modernist decorators of the inter-war period carved out an original and experimental path for themselves.

Written by a team of specialists, this book looks at their history in the midst of a period of intense change, marked by the birth of plywood to remedy the devastating effects of central heating on furniture, the craze for malleable wood, the appearance of furniture in chrome tubes, combination furniture, indirect lighting, the revival of weaving, wallpaper and curios...

The book is based on the collections of the Centre international pour la ville, l'architecture et le paysage, soon to be housed in the new Brussels museum, the Kanal-Centre Pompidou.