Jules Chéret: The Father of the Modern Poster
How Jules Chéret turned the Paris street into an open-air gallery and invented the colour lithographic poster as we know it.
Alphonse Mucha and the Birth of Art Nouveau
The overnight poster that launched Art Nouveau — and how Alphonse Mucha turned decoration into a philosophy.
The Belle Époque Bar Cart: A Short History of the Aperitif Poster
Absinthe, vermouth and quinquina — how France's aperitif brands turned the poster into the most stylish advertising on earth.
Audubon's Birds of America: The Most Ambitious Book Ever Printed
How a self-taught frontier naturalist produced the largest, most beautiful bird book in history — life-size and unrepeatable.
William Morris: Beauty as a Way of Life
The patterns, principles and quiet radicalism of William Morris — founder of the Arts and Crafts movement.
Sea Monsters and Terra Incognita: The Art of the Antique Map
Why old maps are as much art as science — cartouches, sea monsters, blank unknowns, and the golden age of Dutch cartography.
Steinlen and the Cat That Conquered Paris
The story behind the most famous cat in art — Théophile Steinlen's Chat Noir and the bohemian cabaret that inspired it.
The Raphael of Flowers: Redouté and the Golden Age of Botanical Art
How Pierre-Joseph Redouté painted roses for empresses and made botanical illustration into fine art.
Adolphe Millot: The Man Who Illustrated the French Dictionary
The beloved natural-history plates that taught France its butterflies, flowers and mushrooms — by Larousse illustrator Adolphe Millot.