George Barbier Boxed Notecards

$19.95 at de Young Museum.

Aim for the Heart, Beautiful Ladies! With these words and their accompanying illustration, George Barbier winked at the fashions and amusements of the Roaring Twenties. Barbier was a leading commercial artist of the early 20th century, his work a bridge between the organic Art Nouveau style and the more streamlined Art Deco. He was a tastemaker who, in addition to costumes and sets for stage and film, created haute couture fashion plates for popular Parisian magazines such as Journal des dames et des…