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 ...

Gustav Gaudernack (1865-1914) was a talented Norwegian goldsmith known for his art-nouveau designs. From 1892 to 1910, he was the leading goldsmith and designer for David-Andersen, a company that ...

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 ...

The show is the debut exhibition in the new Modernisms gallery, and will explore the influence of nature on early Modern design, and how this evolved into graphically more abstract, geometric forms.

“Art Nouveau comes from the idea that straight lines in nature don’t exist — and this works particularly well with our tradition of nonfigurative, organic design, and of repetition and ...