Highlights the key elements of art nouveau through text and photographs of its influence on buildings, furniture, glassware, textiles, and more. (view table of contents)

Explains how to choose a topic for a report, how to find and organize information, and how to write and revise the final version

Shows art nouveau style vases, glassware, fabrics, tables, chairs, desks, cabinets, lamps, and jewelry, and indicates natural forms which inspired the designs

Traces the history of modern design, looks at furniture, pottery, glassware, clocks, and architecture, and post-modernist movements

The Vienna Jubilee Exhibition of 1898 provided the occasion for these remarkable essays by the Austrian architect, theorist, and irreverent critic of his own culture, Adolf Loos. The rational underpinnings of his later accusation that "ornament is crime," first appear in these polemical thrusts at the stylized work of Viennese sucessionists Joseph Hoffmann, Otto Wagner, Hermann Obrist, and Gustav Klimt, among others.

Shows porcelain, glassware, silver, metalwork, furniture, lamps, jewelry, and carpets, and discusses the Arts and Crafts, movement, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, and Bauhaus designs