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 ...

The St. Louis–based Ludlow-Saylor Wire Company published this catalog in 1895, to showcase its designs for decorative ... In the 1890s, the art nouveau style, shaped by British and German ...

instead retrenched in his Japan-influenced hieratic designs and quasi-Byzantine decorative backgrounds. Art Nouveau is the French name of an art movement (called Stile Liberty, Jugendstil ...

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 ...

A precedent for the Art Deco movement, the Art Nouveau period of design was brief (it spanned from the 1890s to the early 1910s) and was characterized by undulating lines and soft curves with ...

E.A. Séguy, a French artist, created these prints of insects in the 1920s and sold them in pattern books to others who might use them for inspiration in coming up with designs for textiles or ...