Rita Letendre Palm Springs Desert Museum 1977 art nouveau highly feminine styles from the

highly feminine styles from the early 1900s set a new precedent for the importance of lingerie in women's private lives--a concept that remains important to many women today

to storefronts splashed with advertising signage

Text by John Fortier & Photographs by Owen Fitzgerald

While referencing and acknowledging diverse sources such as Renaissance

culminating when German geographer Martin Behaim created what is thought to be the oldest surviving terrestrial globe

Rita Letendre Palm Springs Desert Museum 1977 art nouveau highly feminine styles from theRita Letendre text by Gilles Henault 8vo. pp. 32. illustrated. paperback wrs. (near fine). Palm Springs: Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1977. Exhibition catalogue.