[Jugendstil Art Nouveau Highpoint- Excessively Rare First Issue] Neue Ideen f¸r dekorative Kunst und das Kunstgewerbe ("New Ideas for Decorative Arts")

Berlin & Coln (Rhein): Kanter & Mohr, [1901].

First edition. Elephant folio (20 x 14 inches). Original teal blue cloth boards with stunning Nouveau pictorial covers by Arnold Lyongr¸n, stamped in white housing the loose sheets, as issued. Decorative title page and forward by Lyongr¸n, printed in lavender. With 24 superb color-tinted plates, printed in blue, green, and browns, with border rule and adjacent decorative lettering in orange. Photolithography and typography by C. G. Roeder, Leipzig. This very scarce first edition was followed in 1903 by a similar volume with 48 plates, but this original edition with 24 color-tinted monochromatic plates is very much the desired edition. The images blend various motifs of the human form with plants and animals, vases, fish bowls, bird cages, stained glass, etc., all in classic Jugendstil Art Nouveau style. Lyongr¸n (1871-1935) was inspired by the Art Nouveau style of decorative arts while traveling in France as a young artist under the tutelage of Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Tony Robert-Fleury. He published a number of patterns for decorative arts and crafts, among them Decorative Motifs from the Natural World (1899) and New Ideas for Decorative Art (1901). Corners bumped, slight blemish to small portion upper cover, very slight chipping to extremities of a few leaves, on the whole a very well preserved set, with all the plates in excellent condition and registration.

Price: $2,850.00   Item #3915