Foreword Francois Brandt Nineteenth-Century Ironwork: Emile Robert Relights the Fire Childhood and Schooling Life at Vierzon: Edgar Brandt's Training The Seeds of a Philosophy 1900: A Career Begins To See and Be Seen: The Salon Exhibitions The Weld That Held: The Oxyacetylene Torch Iron of a Different Kind 101 Boulevard Murat The War Memorials Progress Comes with Peace: Forging Art in the Early 1920s Japonisme and Other Motifs Two Sides of the Drawing Board: 1923-1924 The Exposition of 1925: Background Beaucoup Brandt: Everywhere at the Fair Brandt's Stand: A Treasury of Fer Forge Works in Bronze: Vessels and Serpents La Galerie Edgar Brandt American Exposure The Canadian Connection Back in Paris: 1926 The Denouement Change Is in the Air The Close of the Decade Into the Future The Legacy Endnotes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments and Photograph Credits