Klimt
Edited by Alfred Weidinger
Prestel £89, 320 pages
FT bookshop price: £71.20

Klimt, painter of gilt-layered excess, has found his monument in this lavish, cased, gold-lined, giant catalogue raisonne that commemorates his stellar rise this century. Gorgeously produced and designed, scholarly yet an enjoyable read, it is a tribute from our extravagant noughties to the decadent 1900s: the year’s most seductive gift in hard covers.