1896 French Decorator Pochoir, Castor oil plant (plate 20) home decor and lithographer

and lithographer

and artistic competition

often pure and sometimes unnecessarily materialistic

such as Fratelli Fabbri

1896 French Decorator Pochoir, Castor oil plant (plate 20) home decor and lithographerDate: 1896 Size: 11 x 16 inches About The Poster: From La Plante et ses applications ornementales, (Plants and Their Application to Ornament). Directed by Mr Eugne Grasset, this book was illustrated by nine artists and was produced "to show pratical example for the industry and a path to follow". It can be seen as an Art Nouveau manifesto, with Grasset introducing this book as a "merciless war against the imitation from the past". In very good