Paul Poiret: 1879-1944, Yvonne Deslandres, Rizzoli, 1987, Very Good, Hardcover

Deslandres, Yvonne. New York. Rizzoli. 1987.

English, First, Very Good, Hardcover, Folio, 12 15/16" x 9 13/16", [7] 8-330 [2] pp.

ISBN: 0847808025

Very Good hardcover with black cloth over boards, blind-stamped title to front panel and spine, rose endpapers, slight cocking to spine, minor markings to front endpaper, bookseller's plate to back endpaper, faint soiling along bottom edge of front and back boards, possibly from liquid but not affecting text block, otherwise clean and unmarked throughout, binding tight. Near Fine pictorial dust jacket, featuring photographic detail of Poiret's 1907 "Josephine" model to front, tan-edged black lettering to front and spine, minor rubbing and minor soiling to back, protected by paper-backed Mylar sleeve, 330 pp. 380 photographs and illustrations, 180 of which are in full-color. Text in English, Introduction by Didier Grumbach, photographs by Jacques Boulay and Jean-Michel Tardy, text by Yvonne Deslandres (former Curator of the Union Française des Arts et du Costume), with contributions by Dorothée Lalanne (daughter of preeminent French artist, François-Xavier Lalanne): "A Portrait of Paul Poiret", "The Dresses of Paul Poiret Before 1914", "The Clothes of Paul Poiret After 1919", "Madeleine Panizon's Hats", "The Rosine Perfumes", "The Martine Workshops", "Raoul Dufy", Bibliography, Index, Acknowledgements. From inside dust jacket: "Paul Poiret remains unchallenged as the greatest creator of haute couture in the early years of this century [...], but his interests were not restricted to fashion: [he] was insatiably curious about every aspect of the art of his era."  Indeed, this sumptuous volume reveals the unparalleled breadth of splendor attendant to Poiret's life and oeuvre: his work in fashion, costume, and interior design; the founding of his couturier perfume business, Rosier; his collection of early and significant works by various contemporary visual artists and sculptors (Dongen, Brancusi, Dunoyer de Ségonzac, de la Fresnaye), as well as his collaborations with painter Raoul Dufy, and illustrator Georges Lepape; his famously extravagant, thematic fêtes, the most famous of which was called "The Thousand and Two Nights", when Paris' high society attended in costume of Persian inspiration. A truly resplendent and detailed compendium of all things Poiret, worthy of prominent placement in the library of any aesthete.