Christie's. Art Noveau

Sinuous designs based on flowing, sensuous, curvilinear shapes rendered in rich, elegant colors characterize the great beauty and startling originality of the work highlighted and celebrated in this lavishly illustrated book. Christie's Art Nouveau is a treasure chest of imagery and information for everyone fascinated with this movement, which changed the face of modern art at the turn of the twentieth century and is enjoying renewed interest at the turn of the twenty-first.
Gleaned from the archives of the famous auction house and from private collections, the objects surveyed range from china teacups to jewelry to entire rooms designed in the exciting Art Nouveau style. Each chapter concentrates on one particular discipline within the movement, such as the iridescent glassware of Lalique and Tiffany; the metalwork of the Wiener Werkstte, Georg Jensen, and the Unger Brothers; the furniture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Hector Guimard, Josef Hoffman, Antoni Gaudi, and Otto Wagner; the jewelry of Liberty & Co. and Charles Robert Ashbee; the sculpture of Maurice Bouval, Louis Chalon, and Raoul Larche; the ceramics of Emile Gall, Villeroy & Boch, and Riessner, Stellmacher & Kessel; and the stirring graphics of Toulouse-Lautrec.