The dancing lines of the style suggest the aliveness and desire of all things in nature, and evoke a rapture in beholding the natural world, albeit in Art Nouveau’s abstracted or tamed form.

Dense et lumineux, le parcours s'ouvre sur le Style Congo, en référence à une exposition coloniale organisée dans le parc du ...

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 ...

Art Nouveau declined at the advent of World War I, as society focused less on the arts and more on technology. After World War I, Art Deco became the dominant style.

He says, 'World War I typically forms the dividing line between the timelines of the two styles – Art Nouveau is a pre-World War I style and Art Deco is a post-World War I style.' ...

Charles Rennie Mackintosh elevated the chair into architecture. The Glasgow designer, architect and artist led a collaborative group dubbed "The Four" as Britain's answer to Art Nouveau. Their ...

A community that fell in love with the arts long ago celebrated a big milestone for one of its longstanding creative pillars, as Laguna Beach observed the 90th anniversary of the Festival of Arts.

Beaux-Arts architecture is a classical, opulent style that emerged in Paris during the 19th century and later spread to the United States and other parts of the world. Exacting in principles such ...

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.