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Animals in Art Nouveau

Our latest Capital Collections exhibition lets you browse through ‘L’animal dans la Decoration’. This volume is by French artist Maurice Pillard Verneuil and dates from 1897. One of the most influential works from the Art Nouveau movement, it shows how animal themes could be used to influence design and decoration. The perfect sourcebook for researching this distinctive and decorative period of art, generating ideas for fashion, furnishing and interior design, or just for creating some beautiful and inspirational posters for the classroom.