In the centenary of Casa Sayrach - Manuel Sayrach's best-known Modernista building - Barcelona reasserts the architect's worth in the book Manuel Sayrach 1886-1937. Arquitectura i Modernisme a Barcelona (Manuel Sayrach 1886-1937: Architecture and Modernisme in Barcelona). This publication explains and illustrates details enabling us to understand this little-known yet complex artist, offering a thorough review of his work. The publication includes the text "The New Architecture", in which the artist projects his ideas based on the force of nature. As well as an architect, Sayrach was a thinker and humanist, leading him to pen both poetry and theatre. He also authored politic works, such as República i Constitució (Republic and Constitution).

Various authors, 2018 / Manuel Sayrach 1886-1937. Arquitectura i Modernisme a Barcelona
BARCELONA CITY COUNCIL
240 pp., 21.5 x 25.5 cm, colour and black and white illustrations. Published in Catalan.
Available in hardcover / Euros20
For more information: www.barcelona.cat/barcelonallibres

Domènech i Montaner. Un home universal (Domènech i Montaner: A Universal Man) examines all the complexity of a multifaceted man who transcended his period, becoming a cultural paragon. Architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1849-1923) was a key figure in Catalonia at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, his work reaching beyond the architectural sphere thanks to his active participation in the cultural and political life of his time. Responsible for the 1888 World's Fair buildings and two Modernista masterpieces - the Hospital de Sant Pau and the Palau de la Música (both now World Heritage Sites), Domènech i Montaner was likewise one of the lights of the Renaixença (nineteenth-century Catalan "Renaissance"). He also oversaw the Bases de Manresa (Guidelines for a Catalan Regional Constitution) and was a member of the Spanish Parliament, the apotheosis of the political struggle for Catalan identity.

DOMÈNECH i GIRBAU, Lluís, 2018 / Domènech i Montaner. Un home universal
EDICIONS DE LA MAGRANA, Barcelona
480 pp., 14.5 x 21.3 cm, colour and black and white illustrations. Published in Catalan
Available in hardcover / Euros29
For more information: www.rbalibros.com

From 29 June 2019, the Wiesbaden Museum will present the collection of Ferdinand Wolfgang Neess as a permanent display in the Museum's southern wing. The 700 objects on show will provide a cross-section of all Art Nouveau (Jugendtil) genres, revealing prime examples of high quality and stylistic virtuosity. The new display at the Wiesbaden Museum will bring this outstanding collection to a wider audience for the very first time and simultaneously position Wiesbaden on the map of Art Nouveau cities in Europe.

For more information: https://museum-wiesbaden.de/jugendstil

Toulouse-Lautrec i l'esperit de Montmartre (Toulouse-Lautrec and the Spirit of Montmartre) is the catalogue, containing over 300 illustrations, that accompanies the exhibition of the same name organised by Obra Social "la Caixa". This multidisciplinary show reveals the fundamental role the Montmartre spirit played in the development of modern art. It looks at the way Toulouse-Lautrec and his contemporaries influenced evolution of an ephemeral artistic production, shaped by Bohemia and the avant-garde, which challenged established mores. In posters, illustrations, prints and designs they disseminated the Bohemian spirit and their artistic creations to new audiences in late nineteenth-century Paris.

Various authors, 2018 / Toulouse-Lautrec i l'esperit de Montmartre
FUNDACIÓ BANCÀRIA "LA CAIXA" / EDITORIAL PLANETA BARCELONA
274 pp., 21 x 24 cm, colour and black and white illustrations. Published in Catalan and Spanish
Available in paperback: Euros 33
For more information:  www.laie.es

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