Let me set the scene. Natural light pours in through arched windows trimmed with stained glass, staircases are lined with intricately curved railing, and soft but bold colors come to life through ...

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 ...

It is difficult to convey the giddy joy I felt one day in Berlin-that gray grid of a city-upon opening an unsuspecting gate and feeling in my hand no ordinary doorknob, but iron in the shape of a ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Art Nouveau, or "new art" in French, is an architectural and artistic movement that emerged in the late ...

"The Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art" Credit: Brian Chilson Like a renegade plant sprouting through cracks in the concrete, Art Nouveau blossomed in Europe and the U.S.