Over a hundred years ago Paris became one of the centres for the first architecture style that moulded the modern world - Art Nouveau. This liberating and intriguing style still characterizes the iconic cityscape of Paris.
One hundred exquisite drawings made on the spot take the reader on excursions on the streets, cafés, commercial buildings, métro stations and residential buildings. This book brings forth structural, spatial and social inventions of this architecture as well as its reforms in interior design. The drawings depict the districts of Paris enabling the reader to plan his/her own promenades among these miraculous masterworks of architecture. The text opens up the era of Art Nouveau, which fostered an amazing amount of talented architects and artists.
Jonathan Moorhouse (1938—2017) was an English architect who lived over 50 years in Finland. He published a large body of architectural history books, of which the most prominent handle the architecture of Finnish Jugendstil, Art Nouveau, and modernism. This book, which is Jonathan Moorhouse's last, reveals its author's profound expertise and love for French culture and architecture.