Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets Out of Office_Library from the era when keeping

from the era when keeping track of things was still done by hand

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Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters’ Alphabets Out of Office_Library from the era when keepingAcross France, before standardized type arrived to settle the question, the sign painter was the city's typographer the person responsible for how storefronts, restaurants, and music halls looked. These artisans worked from large chromolithographic portfolios: model alphabets printed to demonstrate styles, teach technique, and supply an entire trade with its visual vocabulary. Lettres Dcoratives recovers that tradition in full more than 150 plates of