First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor Francis; an informa company.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. An Art Nouveau treasure.By Opera ManA wonderful book to treasure for anyone who loves Art Nouveau architecture.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Only 58 plates. but I found this look at design and architecture to be beautiful and breathtakingBy Wayne A McCoyArt Nouveau Architecture edited by R. Beauclair and M.I. Gradl was originally published in Paris in 1902. Its a wonderful look at how this beautiful style was imagined for buildings.The book is comprised of 58 full color plates. The contributors are from France. Germany. Austria. England and The Netherlands. The book has full building facades and detail like plaster facades and bulls-eye windows. There are columns and keystones. There are interiors as well. Entry halls and restaurant buffets. Store fronts and wrought iron gates share space with handrails.Its all gorgeous. This is imaginative and beautiful design. I have seen some of it executed. and its just as breathtaking in real life. even 80 plus years later. Its an unusual book. but I thoroughly enjoyed poring over it.I received a review copy of this ebook from Dover Publications and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this ebook.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. A look into the futureBy David WinebergIt must have been so thrilling for architects after 1895. when Art Nouveau began bending the rules. The Victorian sameness had long outlived its welcome. and Art Nouveau was the wild. joyful. anarchic style that blew it away. It was established at the Paris World Exhibition in 1900. and this collection dates to 1902. There 58 plates. in color for the most part. which demonstrate wonderfully how architects could think outside their hidebound box. There is an overrepresentation of Jugendstil. which tended. even that early. toward the Art Deco. The French. organic style. hadn’t yet taken the country by storm. So there is nothing by Hector Guimard. for example. And oddly. nothing from Belgium. where it all started. and where architects were doing thing is steel that no one had ever imagined.It’s a small portfolio. but it really gives a sense of what was new and innovative. thanks once again to Dover rehabilitating it.David Wineberg
