Livre Art Nouveau the French Aesthetic
Erotically festooned cheroot holders; Guimard doorways and Mtro shelters; carved and painted ivory figures with bared poitrines; a gracefully curving carved wood "sellette"; a silver-gilt plaque de cou of plique jour enamel-these are just a few of the items produced during what was a scandalous era for design, emerging from deep within a bourgeois culture that would soon tear ...