Magazines, galleries ... influenced the colors used in turn-of-the-century clothing. “Alphonse Mucha: Art Nouveau / Nouvelle Femme” is one of the inaugural exhibitions at the Poster House ...

Since they believed they were creating everything anew, their style is best known today as Art Nouveau, French for "new art." In April, London's Victoria and Albert Museum opened the largest ...

Europe was something out of a magazine ad. But they eventually went after it, whereupon European producers went after them. At the Exposition Universelle, in Paris, in 1900, the Art Nouveau ...

There is no train in “Monaco • Monte-Carlo.” The railway ad instead pictures a woman, poised at the shore’s edge. Encircled in rings of carmine- and blush-tinged blossoms, she looks up ...

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 ...

Lydie Nesvadba “If you appreciate architecture and want to discover Antwerp from another era, you have to walk through the Zurenborg neighborhood. I love the Art Nouveau buildings.” ...

Miami-based Portuondo Perotti Architects were heavily inspired by the Art Nouveau movement, which is characterized by sinuous, often asymmetrical lines loosely inspired by nature, a creative use ...

"I've always been a fan of Art Nouveau," explains the designer Amy Lau. "It appeals to me because it embraces its natural form." Lau is speaking to me in the midst of a frenzied week of ...

When art nouveau was showcased first in Paris and then in London, there was outrage; people either loved it or loathed it. Within the style itself there are two distinct looks: curvy lines and the ...