Before writing this story, I had some idea of the Art Nouveau movement, but would be pushed to pinpoint where exactly it deviated from what we know about Art Deco interior design. In terms of eras ...

For centuries, human adornment has been used to demonstrate power, sexual attraction, life passages, relationships and protection. Adornment is an art form, created to reflect tradition, nature ...

Discovering Art Nouveau The early modernist style, evocative of the natural world, can be seen in abundance in whimsical buildings along the Danube and elsewhere in Europe.

A precedent for the Art Deco movement, the Art Nouveau period of design was brief (it spanned from the 1890s to the early 1910s) and was characterized by undulating lines and soft curves with ...

Alphonse Mucha, Czechoslovakian Bank Notes: 10, 20, 50, and 100 koruns, 1919-1929, Color prints on paper Flagler Museum, Winter Exhibition, Alphonse Mucha: Master of Art Nouveau.

Art Nouveau was an architectural movement as well, displayed in its full glory at the 1900 Exposition Universelle — or World’s Fair — in Paris, where nearly 50 national pavilions displayed ...

World Art Nouveau Day is marked every year on 10 June, the anniversary of the deaths of two greats of the movement: Catalan Antoni Gaudí and Hungarian Ödön Lechner.

Art Nouveau, which took shape from the 1880s to just prior to World War I, is not to be confused with the streamlined, geometric shapes of Art Deco (as in New York City’s Chrysler Building ...

The opening of Maison Hannon is part of the citywide festival Art Nouveau Brussels 2023, a year-long programme of events that includes exhibitions and guided tours — much is planned for June 10 ...