Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters Alphabets cyberféminisme The flowers are subjects in

The flowers are subjects in their own right in the context of Wild Flowers

“Sans cesse sollicité par l’attrait irrésistible du plaisir de la lecture”

décorum abscons et faux bonds à répétition

typographique et photographique

Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters Alphabets cyberféminisme The flowers are subjects inA 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 Originally made to demonstrate styles and inspire artists to decorate cities with increasingly colorful, adventurous, and refined forms, these portfolios preserve a rich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