Known for its opulence and geometric forms, the style dominated the architectural scene during the ’20s and ’30s

By Alan George Imagine stepping into your bathroom and being whisked away to the glamorous era of the 1920s - a time when elegance...

Bring a taste of Gatsby's eclectic mansion into your more humble abode.

The Quick Trick: It all comes down to "flowery" vs. "streamlined." Art Nouveau is the decorative one. Art Deco is sleeker.

Le musée Mucha de Prague retrace les grandes étapes de la vie et de l’œuvre d’Alfons Mucha, figure de proue de l’Art nouveau. Très attaché à ses racines, l’artiste a connu le succès à Paris avant de revenir dans son pays pour créer son œuvre majeure, l’Épopée Slave. Le Musée Alfons Mucha se trouve dans […]

Are you a fan of period pieces like The Great Gatsby and Chicago? Do you love the Roaring 20s? Chances are you’re attracted to Art Deco design. Art Deco is an art and design style that was popular in Europe… Continue Reading What Is Art Deco? An Overview of the 1920s Style

L'origine del mondo e delle Janas nella leggenda di Giuseppe Dessì

How influential was Frank Lloyd Wright? UNESCO inscribed eight of his sites to the World Heritage List. See why his work is worthy of this global recognition.

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It’s photographs like this that stop me in my tracks when I’m browsing the internet, and I’m always saving them away in some folder that I never do anything with– until today! The time has come to unload my favourite art nouveau stunners on you. Let’s start with this flower-shop in Brussels, designed by Paul…

Caitlin is walking us through the history of the Art Nouveau architecture era and this is one history lesson you won't want to miss

Bij toeval liepen Anouk en Yves tegen deze Antwerpse art nouveau parel aan. ‘Als ik wakker word geniet ik zó van het glas-in-lood, de hoge ruimte en het zachte licht.’

Learn how to blend Art Nouveau design principles with advanced AI tools to make one-of-a-kind Art Nouveau postcards.

“I live life in the margins of society, and the rules of normal society don’t apply to those who live on the fringe.” In Tamara de Lempicka’s world women are fierce, independent and effortlessly stylish. Today her highly collectable paintings are potent symbols of a bygone era, capturing the sensuous glamour and decadence of the...

My friend Janelle Pietrzak recently told me she was going to install a round window in her living room. I love the idea – it’s like a magic porthole, don’t you think? And of course,…

A decade after finishing the SC Johnson Administration building in Racine, Wisconsin, Frank Lloyd Wright started the construction of the Research and Development Tower. The 1950s building for SC Johnson was the home to many of the company’s most well-known inventions and was in need of lab facilities for their rising research and development department.

Some artists succumbed to sickness, sadness and drug addiction before their work was done. This is the story of Aubrey Beardsley who died of tuberculosis before his 26th birthday. He died too young.

Caitlin is walking us through the history of the Art Nouveau architecture era and this is one history lesson you won't want to miss

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Two exhibitions examine the period of cinema history when filmmaking talent crossed the Atlantic from Berlin, the center of German-language cinema, to Hollywood.

His erotic ink drawings, full of nudity and sex, influenced everyone from Klimt to Picasso. But, ahead of a Tate Britain show, we look at the pictures that were deemed just too outrageous. WARNING: explicit content

Caitlin is walking us through the history of the Art Nouveau architecture era and this is one history lesson you won't want to miss

Quirky technicolour homes are now a common sight in the sprawling city of El Alta in east Bolivia. 'New wealth' residents invest their money in 'Cholets', a design of home created by a former bricklayer.

Image 3 of 3 from gallery of Unified Architectural Theory: Chapter 3. Photograph by Flickr CC User mksfca

1. London Underground Posters from the 1920s From Bonhams and Library of Congress, via IO9 2. England’s 35 acre, secret subterranean Cold War City Deep beneath Wiltshire lies an abandoned fortress, strewn with old bedding, rusting machinery and stationery marked ‘top secret’. This is the Corsham bunker, where the nation’s elite would have retreated in…

"You Killed Kenny" Door Stopper: Ever since I bought my first bag of sugru (check out this link if you don't know what it is), I've used it for a lot of stuff (fixed my bike, improved a pen, made a custom handle to carry bottle crates or made my shoes more comfortable ...), but for…

William Henry Barribal (1874-1952) was a London artist who began his career as a lithographer before going on to study at the Académie Julian in Paris. By the turn of the 20th century, Barribal had become an accomplished painter and designer. He created a series of images that were used on First World War recruitment posters in Great Britain.

Image 5 of 22 from gallery of 1Q1 Kitchen and Bar / Khosla Associates. Photograph by Shamanth Patil

It's quite a long time ago that I posted a picture of the art nouveau winter garden (1900) of the school of the Ursulines, Onze-Lieve-Vrouw-Waver (between Brussels and Antwerp, Belgium). This stunning place was the visiting room of the "pensionnat de demoiselles".

Five snapshots from Fantagraphics' lavish new book, The Brinkley Girls, edited by Trina Robbins and featuring "the best of Nell Brinkley's cartoons from 1913-1940." These images do not do justice to the glorious art in this 136-page, 13.25 x 9.75-inch...

Kay Nielsen is among the greatest artists associated with what is known as "The Golden Age of Illustration" and his works are associated with classic fairy tales, in addition to myths and fables.

This beautiful balcony partly covered in stained glass can be admired on a house at 26 Calle de la Diputación in Sant Sadurni D'Anoia not far away from Cavas de Freixenet, the renown Catalan cava cellars. This is the exact spot in town to find Cal Calixtus (1885) which is the name of this beautiful sample of Catalan modernisme.

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Stained glass is having a moment, and these spaces show how to do it right.

Edited by Henry Harland with art editors Aubrey Beardsley (vols. 1-4) and John Lane (vols. 5-13). Cf. The Yellow book : a selection / compiled by Norman Denny.

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like past projects surrounding gaudí's works, cardelús was drawn to the visual impact of the simplest lines, colors, and forms that comprise the inimitable structure.

Considering the art of the painter Janet Fish, who currently has works spanning fifteen years on display at DC Moore Gallery, I found myself pulling books off the shelf by the philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty.