Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets Travel Based on considerable new research

Based on considerable new research and bringing to light previously unstudied material--drawings and collages

Includes all of his projects to date

Featuring written essays from David Bryne and other Talking Heads insiders

Michael J Prokopow

Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets Travel Based on considerable new researchA 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 Originally made to demonstrate styles and inspire artists to decorate cities with increasingly colorful, adventurous, and refined forms, these portfolios preserve a rich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