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Detail of Plate XLVI from the 1925 portfolio "Une ambassade française organisée par la Société des artistes décorateurs" illustrating an art deco-style hall

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Detail of the cover of the March, 1913 Special Number of the journal Arts & Decoration, illustrating the pine tree emblem of the Armory Show above the phrase "The New Spirit," both enclosed in a green circle on a horizontal bar of red-and-white checkerboard

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Detail of a page illustrating methods of constructing letterforms, featuring capitals M and N, from the 1535 Parisian publication of Albrecht Durer's "Institutionum Geometricarum"

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At top: Une ambassade française organisée par la Société des artistes décorateurs (detail of Plate XLVI), 1925.