Table of Contents:
  • The style and the age ; Alternate histories ; The cult of nature / Paul Greenhalgh
  • Symbols of the sacred and profane / Ghislaine Wood and Paul Greenhalgh
  • The literary heritage / Philippe Hamon
  • Orient and Occident / Anna Jackson
  • Arabesques : North Africa, Arabia, and Europe / Francesca Vanke
  • Le Style Anglais : English roots of the new art / Paul Greenhalgh
  • The age of paper / Ghislaine Wood
  • Moulding wood : craftsmanship in furniture / Gabriel P. Weisberg
  • The new textiles / Linda Parry
  • The new ceramics : engaging with the spirit ; The new glass : a synthesis of technology and dreams / Jennifer Hawkins Opie
  • Modern metal / Helen Clifford and Eric Turner
  • Jewellery and the art of the goldsmith / Clare Phillips
  • The concentrated essence of a wiggle : Art Nouveau sculpture / Alexander Kader
  • The Parisian situation : Hector Guimard and the emergence of Art Nouveau / Gabriel P. Weisberg
  • Victor Horta and Brussels / Françoise Aubry
  • Munich : secession and Jugendstil ; Secession in Vienna / Gillian Naylor
  • Glasgow : the dark daughter of the north / Juliet Kinchin
  • Louis Sullivan and the spirit of nature / Lauren S. Weingarden
  • Barcelona : spirituality and modernity / Ignasi de Solá-Morales
  • Budapest : international metropolis and national capital / David Crowley
  • The new art in Prague / Milena Lamarová
  • Helsinki : Saarinen and Finnish Jugend / Jennifer Hawkins Opie
  • Moscow modern / Wendy Salmond
  • Louis Comfort Tiffany and New York / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen
  • Turin : stile floreale, a 'liberty' for Italy? / Wendy Kaplan
  • A strange death / Paul Greenhalgh.