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Decorative Arts, 1900:Highlights from Private Collections in Detroit
, Wayne State University Press, 1994, 1994 Paperback, 132 pages , ENG, 280 x 250 mm, in good shape, with illustrations / images in colour and b/w. ISBN 9780895581396.
The decorative arts are arts or crafts whose object is the design and manufacture of objects that are both beautiful and functional. It includes most of the arts making objects for the interiors of buildings, and interior design, but not usually architecture. Ceramic art, metalwork, furniture, jewellery, fashion, various forms of the textile arts and glassware are major groupings. Applied arts largely overlaps with decorative arts, and the modern making of applied art is usually called design. The decorative arts are often categorized in distinction to the "fine arts", namely painting, drawing, photography, and large-scale sculpture, which generally produce objects solely for their aesthetic quality and capacity to stimulate the intellect.
