Decorative sketches
Subtitle: architecture and design influenced by nature in early 20th-century Paris
By: René Binet
Edition: Dover edition.
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780486816685
Subjects: Themes, motives; Art nouveau; Decoration and ornament
Work titles: Esquisses décoratives
Description: "Reproduced from a rare 1902 portfolio, these decorative images offer an exotic and imaginative approach to architecture and applied design. Sixty plates, 12 in full color and many with partial and varied color, exhibit the influence of Ernst Haeckel's natural forms on artist Rene Binet's designs. Illustrations reflecting the styles of Art Nouveau Paris include jewelry, furniture, ironwork, and architectural details"--
Notes: "This Dover edition, first published in 2017, is an unabridged republication of sixty plates from Esquisses Décoratives, originally published by Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts, Paris, ca. 1902. The original preface by Gustave Geffroy has been newly translated from the French by Diane Goullard."