Van de Velde
A 1920 monograph by Karl Ernst Osthaus on the architect and designer Henry van de Velde, published by the Folkwang-Verlag in Hagen for readers of art nouveau architecture in Belgium and Germany. The four plates show interiors and exteriors of houses in Germany, including a staircase with a curved white balustrade, a tiled hallway with arched doorways, a vestibule with a marble-faced wall, and a rendered brick villa with a tall chimney and a stepped gable. A designer could take from them the restrained, curved and arched forms and the use of pale balustrades, patterned floors and built-in panelling typical of the period.
