Every Single Step French Lighting Company Mathieu Lustrerie Takes to Make Its Sea-urchin Chandelier
A company that helped restore Notre-Dame reimagines the sea urchin as a shimmering bronze chandelier with over 800 ...
Exhibition in Paris Focuses on Jewelry Design
More than 200 drawings of French creations are to be highlighted in a show scheduled through July 20 at the Petit Palais.
The turbulent beauty of art nouveau is still all over culture
Alphonse Mucha’s indelible art nouveau images, on view at the Phillips Collection, live on in the visual style of the ...
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A really quick guide to art deco
There was a period where art deco precursors, particularly art nouveau, were gradually morphing into what we now recognise as art deco. Why did it begin? Two practical factors are often cited to ...
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How Art Deco Shaped 100 Years of Forward-Thinking Design
The Swiss-French architect Le Corbusier considered the bourgeois leanings of Art Deco to be the dying breath of old world values and hand-craftsmanship. His pavilion, called L’Esprit Nouveau ...
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Mucha Museum debuts in Prague
The Mucha Museum, named for Czech art nouveau artist Alfons Mucha, opened Feb. 24 in Prague. "Princess Hyacinth" is one of Mucha's works on display at the museum Photo Credit: @Mucha Trust Housed ...