'Post Office Glasgow directory' for 1897-1898
A wonderful result of Glasgow's Art Nouveau movement is the advert for W P Laidlaw & Son, typewriter suppliers in Glasgow's St Vincent Street.
Published in the 'Post Office Glasgow directory' for 1897-1898, this fine illustration embodies some of the city's key Art Nouveau features:
- The merging of the human body into softly moving decorative lines
- The stark contrast of the simple straight lines in the background
- The incorporation of text as part of the image itself, designed in a font that can be closely associated with Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
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