Catalog of an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 6 April-30 July 2000 and National Gallery of Art 8 October 2000-28 January 2001. Includes illustrated object list of exhibition in Washington

The style and the age ; Alternate histories ; The cult of nature / Paul Greenhalgh -- Symbols of the sacred and profane / Ghislaine Wood and Paul Greenhalgh -- The literary heritage / Philippe Hamon -- Orient and Occident / Anna Jackson -- Arabesques : North Africa, Arabia, and Europe / Francesca Vanke -- Le Style Anglais : English roots of the new art / Paul Greenhalgh -- The age of paper / Ghislaine Wood -- Moulding wood : craftsmanship in furniture / Gabriel P. Weisberg -- The new textiles / Linda Parry -- The new ceramics : engaging with the spirit ; The new glass : a synthesis of technology and dreams / Jennifer Hawkins Opie -- Modern metal / Helen Clifford and Eric Turner -- Jewellery and the art of the goldsmith / Clare Phillips -- The concentrated essence of a wiggle : Art Nouveau sculpture / Alexander Kader -- The Parisian situation : Hector Guimard and the emergence of Art Nouveau / Gabriel P. Weisberg -- Victor Horta and Brussels / Françoise Aubry -- Munich : secession and Jugendstil ; Secession in Vienna / Gillian Naylor -- Glasgow : the dark daughter of the north / Juliet Kinchin -- Louis Sullivan and the spirit of nature / Lauren S. Weingarden --Barcelona : spirituality and modernity / Ignasi de Solá-Morales -- Budapest : international metropolis and national capital / David Crowley -- The new art in Prague / Milena Lamarová -- Helsinki : Saarinen and Finnish Jugend / Jennifer Hawkins Opie -- Moscow modern / Wendy Salmond -- Louis Comfort Tiffany and New York / Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen -- Turin : stile floreale, a 'liberty' for Italy? / Wendy Kaplan -- A strange death / Paul Greenhalgh