Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets Travel Featuring written essays from David

Featuring written essays from David Bryne and other Talking Heads insiders

This large-format publication invites readers to look over Jacques Herzog’s shoulder during the development of the project

Michael J Prokopow

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But the idea is the same all the time: the idea must be realizable within the grounds of an ordinary house

Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets Travel Featuring written essays from DavidA kaleidoscopic survey of letterforms from nineteenth and twentieth century France, Lettres Dcoratives includes more than 150 plates from grand lithographic albums printed at the height of the sign painters craft. Originally made to demonstrate styles and inspire artists to decorate cities with increasingly colorful, adventurous, and refined forms, these portfolios preserve a rich visual history of urban alphabets. An introduction by practitioner