Art nouveau could be said to be the first 20th century modern style. It was the first style to stop looking backwards in history for ideas, taking inspiration instead from what it saw around it ...

This is a house at the height of the Art Nouveau design movement. Before writing this story, I had some idea of the Art Nouveau movement, but would be pushed to pinpoint where exactly it deviated ...

Walter Gropius’s 20th-century House in Jena, Germany. Image © Michel Figuet/Living Inside Art Nouveau and Art Déco were two powerful movements that dominated the ...

Art Nouveau was a celebration of it all. One of the more ‘modern’ movements in Art is Cubism. Starting with the art of Pablo Picasso, Cubism became a topic of argument quickly, not just ...

Brian Chilson 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 ...

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. What better way to honour ...

There is no train in “Monaco • Monte-Carlo.” The railway ad instead pictures a woman, poised at the shore’s edge. Encircled in rings of carmine- and blush-tinged blossoms, she looks up ...

Today, around Brussels, banners on lampposts regularly make the claim, “Capital of Art Nouveau”. The aesthetic movement that flourished in the late 19th century across western Europe is often ...

Miami-based Portuondo Perotti Architects were heavily inspired by the Art Nouveau movement, which is characterized by sinuous, often asymmetrical lines loosely inspired by nature, a creative use ...

Organic, sinuous lines, with vines snaking around stylized letters, ethereal women with flowing tresses, and botanical borders characterize the style of Art Nouveau, the enduringly popular ...