Lettres Décoratives: A Century of French Sign Painters AlphabetsA 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 Originally made to demonstrate styles and inspire artists to decorate cities with increasingly colorful, adventurous, and refined forms, these portfolios preserve a rich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