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It mixed criticism, anecdotes, fiction, fashion, and illustration in a way that anticipated later magazine culture, including celebrity gossip and lifestyle media. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCollectors and historians value it because it captures the atmosphere of Belle Époque and wartime Paris in a vivid, stylized form\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"car-breakdown-pagliano","title":"Car Breakdown — Pagliano","description":"\u003cp\u003eA spirited early twentieth-century chromolithograph capturing a fashionable family stranded by a roadside motoring mishap, faithful dog at their side.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawn by Riccardo Pagliano. Published in \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e, Paris, c. 1920.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e was a celebrated French weekly that documented modern manners, fashion, and the foibles of bourgeois leisure. Pagliano's motoring scenes belong to a vogue for automobile satire in the early decades of the century, when private cars were still glamorous, unreliable, and ripe for comic illustration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 27.5 × 19.3 cm. Very Good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784985903390,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/French_Art_Deco_-_001_thumb_27235a95-df2f-4a58-bc63-20dc933e9a24.jpg?v=1777284903"},{"product_id":"fashion-and-automobile-bonnotte","title":"Fashion \u0026 Automobile — Bonnotte","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn evocative early twentieth-century chromolithograph in which fashion and the motor car converge — emblems of a swiftly modernising bourgeoisie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawn by Louis Bonnotte. 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The collision of livestock and motor car was a favourite subject of inter-war illustrators, encapsulating the awkward coexistence of rural tradition and metropolitan technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 26.3 × 18.7 cm. Very Good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784986001694,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/French_Art_Deco_-_003_thumb_322f5c70-5edf-4584-948e-b3b65ac459d1.jpg?v=1777284913"},{"product_id":"joys-of-the-road-splash-fabiano","title":"Joys of the Road, Splash — Fabiano","description":"\u003cp\u003eA lively early twentieth-century chromolithograph capturing the casual mischief of motoring as a driver soaks unsuspecting pedestrians on a country road.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawn by Fabien Fabiano. Published in \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e, Paris, c. 1920.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFabien Fabiano was a prolific French illustrator whose drawings for popular magazines distilled the rhythms of Belle Époque and inter-war life. This sheet belongs to the genre of motoring satire that flourished in \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e, where the new road-going classes were skewered for their mannerisms and minor cruelties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 26.3 × 18.3 cm. 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His morning and bath scenes typified the magazine's playful eroticism and elegant draughtsmanship, blending the lingering ornament of Art Nouveau with the cleaner geometry that would soon shape Art Deco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 36.8 × 28.9 cm. Excellent.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784986099998,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/French_Art_Deco_-_005_thumb_a771c8a8-ebc6-4a5d-975d-d977225c12cb.jpg?v=1777284923"},{"product_id":"beach-idyll-vallet","title":"Beach Idyll — Vallet","description":"\u003cp\u003eA buoyant wartime seaside scene where a soldier on leave courts a fashionable bather amid the dunes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal French title: \u003cem\u003eUne Idylle Bâtie sur le Sable\u003c\/em\u003e. Drawn by Louis Vallet. Published in \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e, Paris, c. 1917.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e was the most chic of French weeklies, mixing fashion, satire, and social reportage. During the First World War its illustrators turned coastal flirtation into a genre of its own — a counter-narrative of leisure that reassured readers of life carrying on behind the lines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 37.0 × 28.4 cm. Very Good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784986132766,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/French_Art_Deco_-_007_thumb_6cfacc36-ce33-4882-874f-d77a3c58f191.jpg?v=1777284927"},{"product_id":"summer-dress-choice-herouard","title":"Summer Dress Choice — Hérouard","description":"\u003cp\u003eA witty Parisian fashion vignette in which a stylish woman weighs the season's silhouettes with theatrical hesitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawn by Chéri Hérouard. Published in \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e, Paris, c. 1920.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChéri Hérouard (Charles Hérouard) was one of the most prolific illustrators of \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e, working under several pseudonyms across more than three decades. His fashion satires distilled the magazine's signature blend of elegance and innuendo, capturing the inter-war Parisienne's swift turn from corseted modesty to the slim-line silhouettes of the new decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 36.6 × 28.7 cm. Very Good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784986165534,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/French_Art_Deco_-_009_thumb_cc1c67c6-badc-414c-a2e5-ed416bd17bd1.jpg?v=1777284931"},{"product_id":"fashionable-parisienne-cover-leonnec","title":"Fashionable Parisienne, Cover — Léonnec","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn elegant wartime cover from the most stylish weekly in Paris, presenting the city's fashionable woman as its presiding emblem.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawn by Georges Léonnec. 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Very Good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784986427678,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/French_Art_Deco_-_011_thumb_fd4edd5a-461c-46bb-add2-1823fd5519a4.jpg?v=1777284935"},{"product_id":"lovers-corner-herouard","title":"The Lovers' Corner — Hérouard","description":"\u003cp\u003eA poignant garden vignette in which a soldier on leave steals an evening with his fiancée beneath the chestnut trees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal French title: \u003cem\u003eLe Coin des Fiancés\u003c\/em\u003e. Drawn by Chéri Hérouard. Published in \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e, Paris, c. 1916.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChéri Hérouard was a defining illustrator of \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e, equally skilled at boudoir scenes and the tender wartime episodes the magazine ran to console its readers. Park and garden settings — Luxembourg, Monceau, the Bois — provided a familiar Parisian stage for these brief encounters, half romance and half farewell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 37.9 × 28.9 cm. Very Good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784986493214,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/French_Art_Deco_-_012_thumb_d63db86e-d881-4c23-9cca-6bed081c0355.jpg?v=1777284940"},{"product_id":"meditation-on-the-map-of-tenderness-fabiano","title":"Meditation on the Map of Tenderness — Fabiano","description":"\u003cp\u003eA languid interior in which a fashionable Parisienne contemplates the seventeenth-century allegory of love revived for the salons of 1917.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal French title: \u003cem\u003eMéditation sur la Carte du Tendre\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Paris, 13 July 1918.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChéri Hérouard was a defining cover artist of \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e, often pairing fashionable women with exotic birds and animals to flatter the magazine's readers as creatures of equally rare plumage. Issued in the summer of 1918, this number leans on holiday spectacle even as the war approached its final months.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 37.9 × 28.9 cm. Very Good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784986558750,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/French_Art_Deco_-_016_thumb_3d8169f7-2fd3-48ff-a1df-1f18462eb9a1.jpg?v=1777284950"},{"product_id":"the-hunted-doe-milliere","title":"The Hunted Doe — Millière","description":"\u003cp\u003eA knowing Belle Époque interior in which a fashionable Parisienne cast as the 'hunted doe' presides over a gentle erotic theatre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawn by Maurice Millière. Published in \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e, Paris, c. 1910.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaurice Millière was among the most identifiable illustrators of \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e, his women instantly recognisable for their slim figures and arch poise. The 'chasse à courre' conceit — the woman as quarry, the suitor as huntsman — was a recurring drawing-room game in the magazine, played always with a lightly satirical touch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 37.9 × 28.9 cm. Very Good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784986591518,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/French_Art_Deco_-_018_thumb_7d7b554e-6f24-40bc-812f-29d69125e669.jpg?v=1777284954"},{"product_id":"winter-pears-fontan","title":"Winter Pears — Fontan","description":"\u003cp\u003eA whimsical autumn cover in which a nymph harvests winter pears from a heavily-laden bough — emblem of the magazine's Art Deco prime.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal French title: \u003cem\u003ePoires d'Hiver se Cueillent en Octobre\u003c\/em\u003e. Drawn by Léo Fontan. Published in \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e, N° 42. Paris, 1922.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLéo Fontan was one of the most decorative illustrators of \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e in the 1920s, his stylised nymphs and fauns turning the agricultural calendar into a procession of erotic allegories. The botanical caprice of this cover is characteristic of the magazine's mature Art Deco look, where a seasonal pretext cloaks the playful nude.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 37.9 × 28.9 cm. Good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784986951966,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/French_Art_Deco_-_020_thumb_1226b3a0-32db-42f2-8b1b-ef658f04e27e.jpg?v=1777284959"},{"product_id":"queen-with-fool-and-knight-herouard","title":"Queen with Fool and Knight — Hérouard","description":"\u003cp\u003eA witty chess allegory in which a queen, her knight and her jester rehearse the courtly games of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal French title: \u003cem\u003eUn Problème de Jeu d'Échecs\u003c\/em\u003e. Drawn by Chéri Hérouard. 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Léonnec puns on 'grenadière' — both grenadier and grower of pomegranates — to picture the war's end as a fertile, decorative truce, reverting national imagery from the trenches to the salon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 38.0 × 28.9 cm. Very Good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784987050270,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/French_Art_Deco_-_024_thumb_533b6ed2-ec9f-43c9-b0c7-c18cef071756.jpg?v=1777284967"},{"product_id":"the-first-cigarette-pavis","title":"The First Cigarette — Pavis","description":"\u003cp\u003eA quietly observed Parisian interior in which a young woman lights her first cigarette of the morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal French title: \u003cem\u003eLa Première Cigarette\u003c\/em\u003e. Drawn by Georges Pavis. Published in \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e, Paris, c. 1910.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeorges Pavis worked for \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e across the Belle Époque and inter-war years, building a quiet reputation for figure studies of unhurried domestic moments. The cigarette in early twentieth-century imagery was a marker of feminine modernity, and Pavis treats it here with characteristic restraint, the gesture absorbing the entire scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 38.0 × 28.9 cm. 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Published in \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e, Paris, c. 1915.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRené Préjelan was a sought-after illustrator of the French weeklies, his line at home with both leisure-class portraits and animal comedy. \u003cem\u003eSports Rustiques\u003c\/em\u003e belonged to a sub-genre of country-life parodies in which the urban Parisienne, dressed for town, finds herself comically outmatched by the local livestock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 38.5 × 28.8 cm. Very Good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784989475102,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/French_Art_Deco_-_039_thumb_114c7096-210b-476f-85c7-f7d721d612af.jpg?v=1777285002"},{"product_id":"modernism-cover-vincent","title":"Modernism, Cover — Vincent","description":"\u003cp\u003eA pointed Belle Époque cover in which the 'New Woman' bends over her drafting board, slide-rule in hand, to redraw the social order.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawn by René Vincent. Published in \u003cem\u003eLa Vie Parisienne\u003c\/em\u003e, N° 1. Paris, 6 January 1912.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIssued as the magazine's New Year cover, this image registers the rising visibility of women in scientific and technical professions in pre-war France. Vincent's clean draughtsmanship pre-empts the geometric clarity of the Art Deco decade ahead, and the magazine's tone — half satire, half admiration — captures the period's ambivalence about female modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChromolithograph. Sheet size approximately 38.5 × 28.8 cm. Very Good.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Phoenix Nest","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51784989606174,"sku":null,"price":200.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0984\/5660\/0862\/files\/French_Art_Deco_-_041_thumb_dc3ede5e-e690-4b53-9910-9fe092cf8337.jpg?v=1777285007"},{"product_id":"the-strategy-of-the-pillow-tam","title":"The Strategy of the Pillow — Tam","description":"\u003cp\u003eA post-armistice domestic comedy in which the 'strategy of the pillow' replaces the strategy of the trenches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal French title: \u003cem\u003eLa Stratégie de l'Oreiller\u003c\/em\u003e. Drawn by Jean Tam. 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