Rene Beauclair

Art Nouveau Architecture is a gorgeous collection of images of Art Nouveau architecture in Paris, taken during "the height of the Art Nouveau period."

The lines of each design are shown in great detail. The patterns, motifs, colors, shadows, sense of depth and use of symmetry are very inspiring for those who create, construct and design. Overall, a perfect snapshot of Art Nouveau architecture in Paris.

Highly Recommended for lovers of art and architecture, and for anyone who needs a little creative inspiration.


**eARC Netgalley**… (altro)

It 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… (altro)