"National variations of Art Nouveau in Scotland, England, France, Netherlands, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Russia, Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, the United States,and other countries• Comprehensive portrayal of famous individual artists including Louis Comfort Tiffany, Edvard Munch, and René Lalique• Biographies of the most significant artists• An extensive glossary"

These richly illustrated art books cover several centuries of great artists and their masterworks. From Rubens to Dali, each artist's life and times, influences, legacy, and style are explored in depth. Each book analyzes a particular painting with regard to the history surrounding it, the techniques used to create it, and the hidden details that make up the whole, providing a thorough look at each artist's career. Included is a bibliography, a chronological reading of principle works, a brief life history, and listings of public collections featuring each artist.

This publication, a collaboration of a Victoria and Albert Museum curator and nine distinguished museum people from Australia, focuses on 100 key works from an exhibition of 250 gathered from private and public collections around the world — and it consi

Rediscover old sentimental favourite dolls from the Art Deco era with doll maker Susanna Oroyan. Here are flappers and vamps, co-eds and clowns, bed dolls, even accessories - more than a dozen in all that are easy to make and embellish. Next, Oroyan offers a comprehensive history of dolls and doll making in the years between the World Wars and shows how to collect, repair and restore old dolls, then create one's own art deco beauty. Filled with full-colour photography, "Dolls of the Art Deco Era" is a gallery of creative inspiration for collectors, crafters and doll lovers everywhere.

This sumptuously illustrated volume presents Gustav Klimt's most important paintings. In particular, the author examines the role of fashion designer Emilie Floge and her impact on his imagery.

A new edition of the title previously published in 1985, exploring the design movement that spread through Europe and the United States for collectors. Comprehensive biographies on over 300 designers are given, with details of over 200 maker's marks and signatures, and illustrations by designers such as Lalique, Fouquet, Hoffmann, and Moser.

Modern architecture between the two world wars was a deliberate rejection of the past, causing a tension between traditional concepts of the home as warm, intimate, and comfortable and cool, futuristic visions of the house as a technological paradise. Art Deco was an attempt to resolve these tensions. Some of the most popular and influential architects and designers of the past 150 years—Norman Bel Geddes and Richard Neutra, working in the US; Robert Mallet-Stevens in France; and Berthold Lubetkin in the UK—designed houses that could be defined as being in the Art Deco style. And Art Deco enjoys a new popularity today, unrivalled since its inception in the 1920s. In The Art Deco House, architectural historian Adrian Tinniswood combines fascinating text and stunning photography to create an essential reference for anyone who loves Art Deco design. Captivating chapters provide detailed overviews of the design, decoration, furnishings, and gardens of the Art Deco house, covering such themes as streamline moderns; Modernist ideas for estates and apartment blocks; urbanism and domestic design; and more. Within each chapter, special stand-alone features draw upon contemporary literature, magazines, and museum exhibitions to demonstrate the style and philosophy of the Art Deco movement. This remarkable guide also features hundreds of stunning, full-color examples of a broad range of Art Deco houses, including the House of Tomorrow by Norman Bel Geddes; the Henry House in Utrecht, Holland; Geragh in Sandycove, Dublin; and Rudolf Schindler's Los Angeles home.• An essential source-book of Art Deco style, with scores of resplendent illustrations • Features little-known houses from the US, France, Ireland, Germany, and Austria • Provides fascinating insight into the lives of Art Deco architects and their clients • Art Deco style is enjoying a resurgence in popularity

A rich source of ideas and inspiration for all craftspeople and artists. The designs can be used as stencil or embroidery patterns, stationery designs, furniture decoration, glass painting guides or whatever your imagination chooses. The designs can be photocopied, traced, colored, adapted or used as inspiration for originating your own designs. They can be enlarged or reduced for a particular project, and will stand up well to reproduction at any scale. Readers are permitted to reproduce any of the designs in these books for their personal use, or for the purposes of selling for charity, free of charge and without the prior permission of the Publishers.