The turn of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design. Two contrasting styles emerged—Art Nouveau and the International style. Professor Pevsner brings a new clarity to an often confusing period, tracing, with the aid of nearly two hundred carefully chosen illustrations, the origins of twentieth-century ideas in architecture and the applied arts.

"No one but Dr. Pevsner could have packed so much information into so compact a work or illustrated it more effectively."

—The Times Literary Supplement

ISBN 0-500-20072-6 · 198 illustrations

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