Posts tagged with ‘art nouveau’

The front cover of “Our Village” by Miss Mitford; it is a dark greenish colour with gold flowers and gilt lettering.

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Art Nouveau staircase of the Tassel House in Brussels by the incomparable Baron Victor Horta. You can visit his private home here.

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Florence Lundborg ~The Lark for May,1896

Lundborg was a San Francisco illustrator and muralist associated with the bohemian group of California writers and artists who called themselves ”Les Jeunes.” The group published The Lark, an artistic and literary periodical edited by Gelett Burgess and Bruce Porter between 1895 and 1897. Lundborg regularly contributed her prints to the publication.

You can see a full text version of issues 13-24 of The Lark here.

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Ophelia by F.H. Ball,1901

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~Los Cigarillos Paris,1901

Walter Crane 1845-1915, Youth.

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Adolfo Hohenstein, German painter and illustrator. 1898.

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Oscar Wilde’s The Sphinx, 1894. Illustrated by Charles Ricketts.

Perhaps the most beautiful book designed in the 1890s, The Sphinx is a tour de force of decadent style. Wilde’s elaborate poem inspired Charles Ricketts’ type design, use of three muted colors of ink - cinnamon, forest, and black - and his exquisite woodcut illustrations. Ricketts and his lover Charles Shannon were members of Wilde’s circle and Wilde was a frequent visitor to their studio, The Vale. Basil Hallward’s studio in the opening scene of The Picture of Dorian Gray is modeled after their studio. [ftp]

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