Tiles

Decorative wall and floor tiles were ubiquitous in interior design at the turn of the last century. Their method of manufacture lent itself to serial production and they thus spread the Art Nouveau style throughout public and private spaces. They feature linear and often asymmetrical vegetable ornament along with mythical creatures or naturalistic symbolic motifs. Displayed in the center is a round pictorial tile by the German Werkbund artist Max Laeuger (1864–1952), one of the leading figures in German ceramic art of the twentieth century.