Paris, Brussels and Barcelona are famous for their elegant, undulating Art Nouveau architectural treasures, but this style, which thrived from about 1890 to 1910, ...

It was ‘the DNA of modern life’. Cath Pound explores what an extraordinary international design movement tells us about the world. Art Nouveau was the first self-consciously international ...

In April, London's Victoria and Albert Museum opened the largest exhibition of Art Nouveau ever assembled. The show, expanded even more,comes to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. on ...

The Art Nouveau artistic movement opposed historicism, favoring originality and a return to handicrafts. Projects Images Products & BIM Professionals News Archive Submit a Project Advertise Architonic ...

When art nouveau was showcased first in Paris and then in London, there was outrage; people either loved it or loathed it. Within the style itself there are two distinct looks: curvy lines and the ...

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 Quick Trick: It all comes down to "flowery" vs. "streamlined." Art Nouveau is the decorative one. Art Deco is sleeker. The Explanation: Both the Art Nouveau and Art Deco movements emerged as ...

Art Nouveau also showed an attempt to meld the realm of craft with the fine arts, as is evident in the exhibition’s array of jewelry, furnishings, works in glass and prints.

To inhabit an Art Nouveau house was a mark of wealth and status. It showed you were successful – those big windows weren’t just designed to let in more light, they also showed off the riches ...

When they moved to Buenos Aires for a year in 2000, Meidan found a postcard filled with photographs of the city’s Art Nouveau architectural details: Doors, domes, and more.