Art Nouveau

A art nouveau storybook from your photos

Flowing lines, floral borders and gilded elegance from the Belle Époque.

Sample spread illustrated in the Art Nouveau style

The world of Art Nouveau

Flowing vines, gilded frames, figures wrapped in ornament. Art nouveau treats a story like a treasure to be decorated. Weddings, milestone anniversaries and grand romantic gestures get the full Mucha treatment here.

Best for: Weddings, formal romance, ornate milestone gifts.

Who it suits

Occasions that are already formal and want to look it. A wedding, a fortieth anniversary, a retirement after a long career. The ornament is the message: somebody thought this was worth decorating.

Which photos work best

Full-length and upper-body photos work better than tight crops, because the style needs room around a figure for the border and the vines. Anything with fabric in it, a dress, a coat, a scarf, gives the linework something to follow.

How it differs from Japanese Woodblock

Woodblock is the other formal style here, and it is spare where this one is lavish. Choose art nouveau when the occasion calls for abundance and woodblock when it calls for calm. See Japanese Woodblock

Questions about this style

Is there gold on the printed book?

The gilding is painted, not foil. It reads as gold on the page without the cost or the fragility of a metallic finish.

Does it work for a modern couple?

It does, and the contrast is often the joke. A couple who met on an app rendered in Belle Époque ornament is a gift that knows what it is doing.

Your photos, this style

Every Fableself book starts from your photos. Your people are redrawn faithfully, same faces, same hair, same spark, inside this style's world, across every page of an original story written for you. Every page is reviewed before it reaches you. You approve a full digital proof before any payment.