For centuries, smooth, polished silver was the metal favored for luxurious serving pieces. That changed by the mid-1870s, when Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts metalsmiths, searching for a new look ...

Art Nouveau flourished between 1880s and 1910. The movement attempted to break down barriers between fine and applied arts, and use modern production methods to objects of everyday, as well as ...

If you're unsure whether a salvaged item is art nouveau, study the design carefully: it should grow from the ground upwards with a continuous organic movement. Ornaments - in silver, pewter and glass.

Antiques Roadshow: Art Nouveau vase valued at over £8000 Over the years, the experts on Antiques Roadshow have seen many vases brought along and their origins discussed.

Christophe Bardin, L'Art nouveau, un long temps pour mourir et disparaître : L'Exemple du Vase aux lys tigrés de 1927, Journal of Glass Studies, Vol. 55 (2013), pp. 213-219 ...

Alphonse Mucha’s body of work is full of contradictions. He is most often identified with late 19th-century Paris, but was in fact Moravian (Czech). His vision for the purpose of art was for the ...