Author: Christie Mayer Lefkowith

Publisher/Date: Christie Mayer, Inc 2006 Retail $95.00

ISBN: 9780970180001

Format/Condition: New hardcover book with dust jacket are in fine condition, 352 pages, 557 color plates

Description: From the Dustjacket: Perfume presentations and flacons were originally designed to provide each perfume with a distinctive and appealing identity. However, years later they have achieved deserved.recognition as art objects. The perfume industry has employed great artists and artisans to create many masterpieces.

In this book, Christie Mayer Leflkowith presents a comprehensive photographic and historical review of over 150 years of creativity. This lavishly illustrated 352 page survey includes 557 color plates, showing almost 1,300 objects produced for the perfume industry during the 19th and 20th Centuries, most of them never published before in such complete and pristine condition.

This work documents the contribution and influence of many artists and industry innovators, such as Rene Lalique, Paul Poiret, Julien Viard, Lucien Gaillard, Henri Hamm, Maurice Depinoix, Georges Lepape, Paullribe, Andre Groult, Daillet, Georges Dumoulin, Louis Sue and Andre Jollivet. It reports on the key role of many glassworks and crystalworks, such as Baccarat, Brosse, Depinoix, Pochet & du Courval and Lalique. It outlines how perfume presentations related to La Belle Epoque, Art Nouveau, Classicism, Orientalism, Art Deco, Modernism and the Romantic styles. It also describes the social and historical context for the creation of these masterpieces.

Masterpieces of the Peifume Industry represents over 20 years of intensive research by the author, Christie Mayer Leflkowith, of company records, period trade journals, other archival materials and exclusive interviews with members of the perfume industry and descendants of artists.

With its authoritative analysis, its 557 color plates and its comprehensive information, this book will prove to be a crucial addition to the libraries of all, collectors, of members of the perfume and design industries, and of all those who can appreciate the visual appeal