Art Nouveau Decorative Designs from delsc

This Feb 2012 edition includes three artists with a focus on the more obscure French artists, MP Verneuil and Georges Auriol. Alfons Maria Mucha designs are included and, if you love Mucha, you will love Verneuil and Auriol’s designs. The issue is available on Amazon and through Magcloud.

About MP Verneuil (1869 – 1942)
“ M. Maurice Verneuil formerly an architect and glass painter, this
artist readily recalls the theories which he learnt when with M. Grasset, and his furniture, decorated with designs in stamped out copper or wrought-iron, is more personal than new in its decorative effect. In the large studio where he prepares his models of carpets, wallpapers, or jewelry, the plant reigns supreme. Plants are subjects for continual study with M. Verneuil: for with them, he says, a picture can be composed quite as well as a ring, or a lamp as a lace ornament. In short, they lend themselves with ease to all the requirements of the Modern Style.” Architectural record, Volume 13 (1903)

Georges Auriol (1863-1939)

Georges Auriol expressed himself through a wide variety of art and
text mediums. He was not alone, of course, in his broad-stroked
approach wth Verneuil and Mucha also writing articles and books
that they believed of value to the artistic community.

You will find Auriol’s work in everything from menus to poems. He
was not shy of expressing his opinions with one entry responding
to the trend of calling people “weather vanes” (girouettes). He is
quick to point out that, as the wind changes, having a direction that
everyone can agree on is important.