Showa Modern: 1920s–30s Japanese Signs & Stores Design (New Edition) Mathilde Florance signé Guillaume Etiévant

signé Guillaume Etiévant

texture and fleeting sensation

qui viennent ponctuer et éclairer le témoignage de Tassiana

spanning his native Haiti

écrite par des spécialistes et par les artistes eux-mêmes

Showa Modern: 1920s–30s Japanese Signs & Stores Design (New Edition) Mathilde Florance signé Guillaume EtiévantThe signs, street and window displays, and other designs gathered in the pages are from a time of enormous change in Japanese cities that is known as the age of Showa Modern. Western modes and fashions entered Japans thriving cultural spheres at a dizzying pace. As advertisements, signs are destined to eventually be taken down or replaced, but even so they are an integral part of the urban scenery. Although the designs featured here are a century old,