Ghislaine Wood Books
Art Nouveau and the Erotic
"Born at a time of rapid change, Art Nouveau flourished at the turn of the last century. While new media such as film and photography provided new ways of seeing the world, the moral landscape of E...
Read MoreEssential Art Deco
"Art Deco, the most glamorous style of the twentieth century, swept across the globe in the 1920s and 1930s, altering the skylines of cities from Shanghai to Rio, and adding an exotic vibrant edge...
Read MoreArt deco 1910 1939
By Charlotte Benton, Tim Benton, Ghislaine Wood
Art Deco - the style redolent of the flapper girl, the luxury ocean liner, Hollywood film and the skyscraper - came to epitomize the glamour, luxury and hedonism of the Jazz Age. It burst on to the...
Read MoreOcean liners
By Daniel Finamore, Ghislaine Wood
Ocean Liners became floating cities for those lucky enough to travel in an era before commercial flight was widely affordable. This book explores the technical, aesthetic, cultural and political fa...
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