L'hôtel Mezzara d'Hector Guimard (Hector Guimard's Hôtel Mezzara) narrates the history - its images leading us inside - of this mansion, a masterpiece of the great master of French Art Nouveau, Hector Guimard. Albeit not so renowned as the famous Paris metro entrances, this is one of the architect's most interesting buildings. Built for the textile industrialist, Paul Mezzara, in 1910-1911, its elegance is striking while it perfectly fulfilled the function for which it was built.
With this publication, Le Cercle Guimard initiates a monograph series on Guimard's buildings, the result of intensive research into the architect's work by this association.

Various authors, 2018 / L'hôtel Mezzara d'Hector Guimard
LE CERCLE GUIMARD, PARIS
127 pp., 21 x 27 cm. Illustrations in colour and black and white. Published in French
Available in paperback: Euros 20.
For more information: www.lecercleguimard.fr

Joan Cardona. El glamour de la Belle Époque (Joan Cardona: The Glamour of the Belle Époque) is the catalogue to the exhibition of the same name that was presented at the Galeria d'Art Gothsland in Barcelona from November 2017 to January 2018. The book - structured into broad sections narrated by different authors - for the first time tells the life and artistic career of Joan Cardona (1877-1958), pursued between the cities of Barcelona and Paris. In the words of Gabriel Pinós, one of the authors, Joan Cardona was "the Barcelona artist who immortalised the elegance of one of the most brilliant artistic periods in the French panorama, the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries".

Several authors, 2017 / Joan Cardona. El glamour de la Belle Époque
GOTHSLAND, BARCELONA
190 pp., 22 x 24 cm, 600 colour illustrations. Published in Catalan and Spanish
Available in paperback / euros 39.99
For more information: www.gothsland.com

Art Nouveau in Buenos Aires: A Love Story brings together the meticulous research Anat Meidan has undertaken on the wealth of Art Nouveau architectural heritage in Buenos Aires. The book, lavishly illustrated with hundreds of splendid photos by Gustavo Sosa Pinilla, compiles the personal impressions and experiences of the author - an art collector and enthusiast of the Belle Époque style - during the time she lived in Buenos Aires.
This beautiful publication, which has just won first prize at AANBA 2018 in the category "Dissemination of graphic media", lets us discover the foremost architectural gems in Buenos Aires Art Nouveau.

MEIDAN, ANAT, 2017 / Art Nouveau in Buenos Aires: A Love Story
EDICIONES POLÍGRAFA, BARCELONA
242 pp., 25 x 30.5 cm, colour illustrations. Published in English
Available in hardcover: Dollars 55 / Euro 45
For more information: www.poligrafa.com

The exhibition's catalogue "Clarence H. White and His World" begins with White's early work in Ohio, which shares with the Arts & Crafts movement the advocacy of hand production, closeness to nature and the simple life. White's involvement with the Photo-Secession and his move to New York in 1906 mark a shift in his production, as it grew to encompass commercial portraiture and an increasing commitment to teaching, leading him to establish the first institutions in America to combine instruction in both technical and aesthetic aspects of photography. The book incorporates new formal and scientific analysis of White's work and techniques, and many unpublished illustrations of the moody outdoor scenes and quiet images of domestic life for which he was revered.

McCAULEY, Anne, BUNNELL, Peter C. and LUNDGREN, Adrienne, 2017 / Clarence H. White and His World: The Art and Craft of Photography, 1895-1925
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW HAVEN, CT
408 pp., 25.40 x 29.21 cm. 346 colour and black and white illustrations. Published in English
Available in hardcover: Dollars 65
For more information: yalebooks.yale.edu

This publication tells the history of the Maison du Peuple (House of the People), built by Victor Horta in the heart of Brussels in 1895, and demolished seventy years later by those who commissioned it. It also tells the tale of newborn socialism in Belgium and the struggle of those with barely any rights. And then of the passage of two wars through a country that hoped to remain neutral, governed and perhaps united by a king. But a country where two languages revealed the extent to which its people were divided. It is the story of a workers' movement and a cooperative, and lastly of a socialist party which, wielding modernity as its excuse, became a machine able to demolish "its own house" unwaveringly and finally to forget it.

MALINCONI, Nicole, 2017 / De fer et de verre. La Maison du Peuple de Victor Horta (Of Iron and Glass: Victor Horta's House of the People)
LES IMPRESSIONS NOUVELLES, BRUSSELS
176 pp., 14.5 x 21 cm, colour and black and white illustrations. Published in French
Available in paperback / euros 16
For more information: www.lesimpressionsnouvelles.com