Art Nouveau architecture is a design style defined by dramatic, nature-inspired ornamentation, often with whiplash curves and flowing lines that look like vines.At its core, Art Nouveau ...

In the post-war period, modernist styles became the dominant aesthetic for institutional and civic buildings – known as late ...

Art nouveau (c.1880 to 1910) 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 ...

World Art Nouveau Day is marked every year on 10 June, the anniversary of the deaths of two greats of the movement: Catalan Antoni Gaudí and Hungarian Ödön Lechner.

If it hadn’t been for the First World War, Art Nouveau might have become the defining style of the 20th Century. Instead, it became an aesthetic dead-end. The main reason was money.

When the movie My Fair Lady opens in October, it will hammer into the public consciousness a new appreciation of an old art style that was known in its day as art nouveau—new art. In planning ...

Besiki Kutateladze is passionate about Art Nouveau architecture, a nature-inspired style popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Growing up in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, he ...

Our guide to Art Nouveau architecture explores the late 19th-century movement known for flowing lines and organic forms and how it influenced the culture.