Concepts of Ornament and Decorative Art by Eugenio Battisti
Indications for an Ornamental Glossary: Florence in the 15th Century by Riccardo Pacciani
In Praise of Decoration Against Superficiality by Roberto Masiero
Ornamental Grammars by Stuart Durant
Carlo Cattaneo and the “Beautiful Regained”: the Argument for Ornamentation by Ornella Selvafolta
Semper’s “Morphology” by Joseph Rykwert
The Art Nouveau Lexicon by Maria Adriana Giusti: 10 pages with 15 illustrations, 5 in color including work by M. P. Verneuil, M. Dufrene, Daum, E. Galle, G. Fouquet, E. Viollet-le-Duc, R. Vallin and H. Ospovat
Ornamental Theory and Practice in the Jugendstil by Frank-Lothar Kroll: 8 pages with 20 black-and-white illustrations including work by Otto Wagner, Louis H. Sullivan, Otto Eckmann, Hokusai, Henry van de Velde, August Endell and Adolf Loos
The Style Debate in the Vienna School by Werner Hofmann: 10 pages with 15 black-and-white illustrations including work by Gustav Klimt and Constantin Brancusi
Anthological Excerpts from Gottfried Semper to Henri Focillon