Style Guide: Art Nouveau and the Vienna Secession

This book provides a sweeping study of his entire career, presenting his complete works via texts and illustrations.

The author traces all the influences that led to his definitive style from his fascination with the Orient and Neogothicism to his affinity for naturalism and specific geometric forms.

Lluís Permanyer places the architect's work within the context of Catalan and wider European developments of the time, but he also describes the extremely personal mystical impetus that was at the core of Gaudí's invention.

A beautifully illustrated retrospective of Art Nouveau architect and designer Hector Guimard, positioning him at the forefront of the modernist movement.

Discusses the many influences on Horta's designs and his legacy.

With both historic photographs and modern images of Mackintosh's major works taken by the noted architectural photographer Mark Fiennes, this is an essential and beautiful addition to the Mackintosh canon and to architectural history.

This book, with illustrations that include specially prepared plans and sections, takes a clear-eyed view of Mackintosh and his achievement, stripping away the myths to reveal a designer of extraordinary sophistication and inventiveness.

In this book, Roger Billcliffe shows that with the furniture and interior designs made after 1915 the textile designs form a whole new style for Mackintosh.The designs fall into two basic categories - one based on organic, mainly floral, patterns; the other using more abstract and geometric shapes.