{"id":7681,"date":"2010-09-06T03:13:52","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T02:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=7681"},"modified":"2010-10-14T16:27:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-14T15:27:56","slug":"combinaisons-ornementales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2010\/09\/06\/combinaisons-ornementales\/","title":{"rendered":"Combinaisons Ornementales"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After writing about Charles J Strong\u2019s Book of Designs<\/em><\/a> a couple of days ago, it seems pertinent to point the way to a far more essential Art Nouveau design book which can also be found at the Internet Archive. Combinaisons Ornementales<\/em><\/a> was a collaboration between Maurice Verneuil, George Auriol<\/a> and Alphonse Mucha published in 1901, and comprises 60 plates of beautifully elegant designs (“multipliable to infinity with the aid of a mirror”) which range from Mucha’s abstractions to Verneuil’s flower motifs. The examples shown here are all by Mucha; I borrowed one of the flourishes and the peacock feather for the Dodgem Logic<\/em><\/a> cover design earlier this year.<\/p>\n

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For a quick look at all the plates, the NYPL Digital Gallery has scans<\/a>. Mucha produced another design book the following year, Documents Decoratifs<\/em>, although I’ve yet to see an edition of that online.<\/p>\n

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\n\u2022 Charles J Strong\u2019s Book of Designs<\/a>
\n\u2022 Mucha\u2019s Zodiac<\/a>
\n\u2022 Dodgem Logic #4<\/a>
\n\u2022 Peacocks<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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