There’s hardly a more rewarding aspect of travel than strolling a new locale, like a modern-day flâneur. The experience is especially sweet when you see something unexpectedly stunning, as I did some ...

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BRUSSELS — This year marks the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the fantastic Horta Museum in Brussels. Designed in 1898 and completed in 1901, this Art Nouveau chef d’œuvre was originally ...

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, in ...

In genteel hotels and the parlours of elderly aunts, there are ornaments with the unsung magical properties of an Aladdin's lamp. Apply a little loving elbow grease to this brass lampstand, modelled ...

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 modern art ...

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 movement ...

PARIS — Through his early and spectacular success as the preeminent Art Nouveau graphic artist, a psychic burden was foisted upon the Bohemian artist Alphonse Mucha. The tragic double-edged sword of ...

Creations by pre-eminent craftsmen — Lalique, Fouquet, Vever — will be part of a show at L’École, School of Jewelry Arts. By Rachel Felder On June 2, Van Cleef & Arpels is to unveil “A New Art: ...

From the January 2023 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here. Art nouveau was born around 1880, spread like wildfire, and by 1905 was dying. It was a new art to suit a new age of turbulent ...