CHAIRS  Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and after : 1860-1930
The reader is not going to be bored by another harangue on the differences between the Arts and Crafts Movement and Art Nouveau. That is done frequently throughout other sections of the book. Most of the chairs here will be known loosely as ‘art nouveau’ by [...]

Art Nouveau Chairs 1890-1920
Declining quality of commercial products blamed - often unfairly - on machine work. Reformist movement partly inspired by folk culture, but culminates in 1890s with international style taking its name from main outlet, la Maison de I’Art Nouveau in Paris.
Art nouveau: Paris designers; de Feure, noted for rich upholstery on neo-Louis XVI [...]