Art Nouveau Designs

A fantastic source or reference book for anyone seeking inspiration for Art Nouveau projects or ideas. With over 250 line illustrations, this book is packed with ideas that can be used to create a whole range of decorative projects. Here you will discover simple and ornate borders, stylised flowers, beautiful birds and butterflies, figures, fruit and much more. You do not need artistic skills, just photocopy or trace the motifs, pictures and patterns, then transfer them on to your project pieces. You will soon discover how easy it is to make unique designs for yourself, or friends and family. The first section of the book offers a gallery of finished pieces which show how the illustrations can be used to decorate cards, boxes, panels, a bookmark and a cushion. The techniques vary from simple colouring and layering to glass painting, parchment craft and embossing. This book uses material from the Design Source Book series, Classic Glass Painting and Art Nouveau Cards by Judy Balchin.

Finely detailed designs, selected from some of Verneuil's best-known collections, feature graceful images of garden flowers, reeds, and blossoming trees, as well as exquisite portrayals of fish, butterflies, birds, and other members of the animal kingdom. An inspiration for graphic artists, illustrators, and craftspeople. 146 full-color illustrations.

Thirty-one elegant designs adapted from the works of Verneuil, Mucha, and other Art Nouveau masters. Features patterns inspired by swans, peacocks, and other creatures. Previously published as Art Nouveau Animal Designs Coloring Book.

Over 300 spectacular pendants, combs, buckles, rings, bracelets, brooches, umbrella handles, penknives, buttons, clasps, and scissors in detailed photographs reprinted from rare, turn-of-the-century folios.

These 44 full-page, full-color plates display the swirling lines and muted colors typical of Art Nouveau. Various decorative elements: borders, frames, panels, cartouches, dingbats, etc.

39 plates — including one two-page spread — show renderings of work by Mucha, Beardsley, Grasset, and others.