Place Stanislas is an impressive square in Nancy, where locals and visitors sun themselves on the terrace of Café Foy in the morning, and at lunchtime in front of Brasserie Jean Lamour. They follow ...

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, in ...

A painter who ended up in India fleeing World War II. This unplanned episode led to the creation of unusual decorations: the conjoining of European art nouveau with Indian traditions in the palaces of ...

Art Nouveau’s organic shapes surfaced thanks to some underwater inspiration. With serpentine flourishes, a contrasting play of symmetry and asymmetry, and precise, vibrant colors, the zoological ...