Emerged in a period marked by the development of the industry and the experimentation of new materials, the Art Nouveau artistic movement was opposed to historicism, favoring originality and a ...

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 developed between the 1880s and World War I in Western Europe and the USA. It was inspired by nature and ...

as the churned-line of Art Nouveau is found on floors and then picked up in shapes of furniture and on into doors and door frames until it reaches the structural arches which support ceilings and ...

Both buildings are examples of the neo-Russian style—the Russian version of Art Nouveau. Wide arches, thin arrow-slit windows, towers, tall trapezoidal roofs and the squat solidity of the whole ...

The arch, which Coppedè fashioned as a doorway ... scientific signs and religious artifacts with strong hints of art nouveau, medieval, baroque, gothic and mannerist architecture, often all ...

Art Nouveau sought inspiration ... magnified Haeckel’s marine organisms into bannisters, arches and stained-glass windows. René Binet, who designed the monumental arch for the Partis Fair ...

Completed 50 years ago this month, the Gateway Arch, the Midwest’s best-known ... Eliel (who designed Art Nouveau landmarks in Helsinki, including the famed central railway station), received ...

With its pale colour scheme and elegant window arches, the Diplomat offers a Scandinavian, low-key take on Art Nouveau, known locally as Jugendstil. Overlooking Stockholm's picturesque harbour ...

Located in an Art Nouveau building in the 14th arrondissement ... masonry to be “a bit ’70s,” but considered the existing arches to be one of the home’s outstanding features.

By turns a grand Art Nouveau statement and a derelict wreck, the building was newly opened as a museum on June 1. “In the area, it’s a revival,” says Jean Spinette, mayor of Saint-Gilles ...