Velde, Henri Van De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...and architect. Beginning as a painter, critic, and crafts designer in Belgium and in...Jugendstil, the German equivalent of art nouveau . His designs for furniture and...quality. With ideas deriving in part from Ruskin and William Morris, he taught at his own school, the Weimar School of Arts and Crafts. Van de Veldes architectural...