Art nouveau designs were based on nature. A close look at this table, which sold for $2,750 at Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, ...

Alphonse Mucha’s (1860-1939) world feels like a dream in perpetual bloom: maidens in draping robes linger in a golden glow, ...

"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.

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 ...

BRUSSELS — This year marks the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the fantastic Horta Museum in Brussels. Designed in 1898 and completed in 1901, this Art Nouveau chef d’œuvre was originally ...

With soaring turrets and decorative flourishes inspired by nature, Ålesund looks like a storybook illustration. Yet this coastal town in Norway was shaped by disaster more than a century ago. Senior ...

William L. Carqueville, "Lippincott's, April" (1895), 19 x 12 7/16 inches, Leonard A. Lauder Collection of American Posters (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) Deceptively niche as it ...

Art collector Anat Meidan came into a grainy focus over Google video, framed against a well-stocked bookshelf. Behind her, her house in the Tel Aviv neighborhood of Neve Tzedek looked airy and bright.

Prague spring blossoms with the curlicued flowers and vines of Art Nouveau. Born in Paris to a Czech designer and popularized by a Belgian, the aesthetic movement defined fin-de-siècle aesthetic ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Matt Shaw is a NY–based writer covering architecture, art and design. The “Swedish Grace” movement may not be a household name, ...