Archibald Knox (Art and Design Monographs)

With the publication of this present volume the combined work of noted scholars of Knoxs life and work and the decorative arts of this important period (1895-1912) Knoxs reputation will be firmly established alongside other great names in design such as C. R. Mackintosh C. F. A. Voysey Christopher Dresser Josef Hoffman Henry van de Velde and Hector Guimard. Containing not only essays that reveal new information about Knoxs personal and artistic activities as well as the origins of his unique and compelling style with its inventive sinuous Celtic knotting this volume provides the most extensive collection of illustrations ever assembled of Knoxs vast body of work. It will become the standard reference work on Archibald Knox for scholars students collectors and connoisseurs of the Liberty Style Art Nouveau and British and European Modernist Decorative Art for years to come.