The Italian Liberty Photo Competition was set up to pay tribute to and collect testimonies of Italy´s wonderful Liberty heritage, which includes villas, palaces, monuments, sculptures and the applied arts.

With this in mind, the Italian Liberty Competition aims to be a unique opportunity to thrill people with the beauty and values that the Liberty Style has always provided.

The Competition is open to young and old, professionals and amateurs, children and school groups of all levels, associations, public and private bodies, Italians and foreigners. In fact, everyone is welcome to participate in the Italian Liberty Photo Competition.
Thanks to the enormous success of previous editions, the third edition will allow contestants to explain the Liberty Style in Italy through both photographs (maximum 30) and video (1 recording).

A new category entitled "Art Nouveau World" has also been included in this edition and aims to explain the Liberty Style works that are present outside Italy. Twenty photographs devoted to foreign Art Nouveau works may be entered, thanks to the collaboration of prestigious foreign institutions such as the European Modernisme Route in Barcelona, coupDefouet magazine, Réseau Art Nouveau Network and Victor Horta Museum.

A total of twenty finalists will receive awards: 12 for the "Italian Liberty" photo category, 3 for video and 5 for the "Art Nouveau World" category.
The Italian Liberty Competition was devised and is directed by Andrea Speziali and organised by AITM. Registration is free and will be open from 2 March to 31 October 2015.

For information on the various registration options, please write to info@italialiberty.it or call (+39) 0112072347.
Registration and information: www.italialiberty.it/concorsofotografico
Dr Andrea Speziali
Mobile: +(39) 3200445798

www.andreaspeziali.it
info@andreaspeziali.it

The book, Italian Liberty. The dawn of the twentieth century, is a compilation of some contains photographs of some participants to the first edition of the photographic open contest Italia Liberty The project consisted in providing information related to the Liberty period by means of: Photographs, postcards, Liberty villas or other types of historic residences of the late '800 and '900 within the Liberty period.
The photographic open contest of Liberty architecture in Italy is a joint venture between institutions, governments and individuals with in the project Italian Culture, developed in the frame work of ITALY LIBERTY with the support of the European project Partage Plus.

RISGUARDI EDITORE, FORLÌ
160 pp., 21 x 28 cm, 276 colour illustrations. Published in Italian
Available in paperback / ?25
For more information: www.italialiberty.it

The publication Glasgow Interiors offers a glimpse into a selection of Glasgow´s most impressive historic interiors. Featuring thirty-three of the city´s most alluring buildings - both public and private -this book tells the story of the city´s built heritage over the past 150 years and demonstrates the extraordinary wealth of interiors that lie behind the façades of Glasgow´s buildings: from a dramatic Victorian swimming bath and a glittering Art Deco restaurant to intricately detailed Art Nouveau warehouses and imposing Edwardian townhouses in the city´s West End.
Glasgow has a spectacular array of buildings and is internationally renowned for its history of architectural innovation, design excellence and unique brand of urban glamour, both cosmopolitan and gritty. Unlike other world-class cities, such as London, Paris or New York, until now there has been no publication to showcase the interiors of Glasgow´s built heritage.

KENDRICK, Helen (text); SMITH, Neale (photographs), 2014 / Glasgow Interiors
BIRLINN LIMITED, EDINBURGH
176 pp., 20 x 24 cm, 110 colour Illustrations. Published in English
Available in paperback / £20
For more information: www.birlinn.co.uk/Glasgow-Interiors

Lechner, a Creative Genius is a fresh publication which accompanies the Budapest Museum of Applied Arts´ centennial exhibition dedicated to Ödön Lechner (1845-1914). It is an album rather than a catalogue, though you will find a list of exhibited original works in the appendix. The well-proportioned selection of plans and photos covers his entire oeuvre. The same could be said about József Sisa´s essay, an article that gives the book great merit and is furthermore the best academic text on Lechner in English to date. The author skilfully incorporates into his summary relevant details from nineteenth-century political and art history, pointing out, for example, new Asian buildings which probably influenced the architect. Both this book´s content and its unfortunate brevity call for increased recognition of this Hungarian genius, who has been languishing on the Unesco World Heritage sites´ Tentative List since 2008.

SISA, József, 2014 / Lechner, a Creative Genius
Museum of Applied Arts - Institute of Art History, Research Centre for the Humanities, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
152 pp., 22 x 28 cm. 301 colour and b/w illustrations.
Text in Hungarian and English
Available in paperback / HUF5900 (ca. euros 20)
For more information: www.imm.hu/lechner

Sitges reopens doors of the Museums: Cau Ferrat, Maricel and Can Rocamora to celebrate the conclusion of the restoration works

Open doors until 4 January 2015!