Art Nouveau architecture / edited by Frank Russell
1983, First Edition. London : Academy Editions. Near fine cloth copy in a very good, somewhat dust-dulled and edge-nicked dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #465177
ISBN: 085670136X
Physical description; 332 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm. Contents; Introduction / Roger-Henri Guerrand -- Great Britain: arts and craft and Art Nouveau / Tim Benton -- Spain: modernismo in Catalonia / Tim Benton -- Belgium: red steel and blue aesthetic / Maurice Culot -- France: Viollet-le-Duc to Tony Garnier: the passion for rationalism / François Loyer -- Holland: building towards an ideal: progressive architecture in Holland / Richard Padovan -- Switzerland: the temperate presence of Art Nouveau / Jacques Gubler -- Germany: Jugendstil: the early morning of the modern movement / Ian Latham -- Italy: liberty architecture in Italy / Ezio Godoli -- Czechoslovakia: the secession in Eastern Europe / Anna Masaryková -- Austria: to the limits of a language: Wagner, Olbrich, Hoffmann / Ezio Godoli -- USA: Louis Sullivan, Greene and Greene and Frank Lloyd Wright / William Chaitkin, Randell L. Makinson & Thomas A. Heinz -- Biographies -- Map of Europe. Subjects; Art nouveau (Architecture). Architecture, Modern. 19th century. Architecture, Modern. 20th century. Decoration and ornament. Art nouveau. Europe.
Price: €25.00