Meg Evans Plastic Canvaswork: Projects for Your Home
Differences between the often confusing design styles of art nouveau and art deco will quickly become apparent by Hammet's choices of inspiration. Pure sinuousness and elegance define this very short time period between the two styles, around the turn of the century; Hammet also selects from the top art nouveau practitioners, such as Louis Comfort Tiffany and Alphonse Mucha, to shape her 80 designs. All groups are prefaced by a brief biography of the artist; patterns, charts, and graphs are then crammed into a few pages. Yet the designs surpass the allotted space--a Klimt gold and spiral frame, for example, is in itself a picture worth admiring.Barbara Jacobs