Foreword by François Brandt 6
Foreword by Philippe Garner 7
Acknowledgments 8
Nineteenth-Century Ironwork: Émile Robert Relights the Fire 10
Childhood and Schooling 13
Life at Vierzon: Edgar Brandt's Training 15
The Seeds of a Philosophy 18
1900: A Career Begins 19
To See and Be Seen: The Salon Exhibitions 22
The Weld That Held: The Oxyacetylene Torch 29
Iron of a Different Kind 44
101 Boulevard Murat 46
The War Memorials 62
Progress Cornes with Peace: Forging Art in the Early 1920s 66
Japonisme and other Motifs 82
Two Sides of the Drawing Board: 1923-1924 92
The Exposition of 1925: Background 102
Beaucoup Brandt: Everywhere at the Fair 104
Brandt's Stand: A Treasury of Fer Forgé 118
Works in Bronze: Vessels and Serpents 130
La Galerie Edgar Brandt 138
American Exposure 144
The Canadian Connection 154
Back in Paris: 1926 158
The Denouement 163
Change is in the Air 165
The Close of the Decade 168
Mexican Mastery 177
Into the Future 186
Borrowing Brandt 196
The Legacy 211
Endnotes 214
Bibliography 227
Index 234
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