Splashy Faucet Trends Jul 3, 2008
The glam trend branches out into deco-drama, Art Nouveau and natural glamour ... The Art Nouveau component is characterized by highly-stylized, flowing, curvilinear designs often incorporating floral and other plant inspired forms ... Art Nouveau also emphasizes new materials, machined surfaces and abstraction. (Harrisburg Daily Register, IL)
What's Tops in Tile? Organic Influence and Fashion Forward Jul 3, 2008
Art Nouveau influences are beginning to creep into glamour offerings, as well. Showcasing this trend is Inalco's "Lounge," a porcelain tile with the look of fine fabric. (Harrisburg Daily Register, IL)
Save our soul Jul 2, 2008
Its architecture is an eclectic mixture of European and Middle Eastern influences, and includes some fine examples of Art Nouveau and neo-classicism. But because so many buildings have fallen into disrepair after a long period of economic decline - and widespread damage caused by a powerful earthquake in 2002 - the authorities in this impoverished former Soviet republic say it would be impossible to find the money to save them all. (BBC News -- Europe)
Guillermo Del Toro Answers 'Hobbit' Fans' Questions About Returning 'Rings' Cast, Religion And More Jul 2, 2008
He has this fusion between medieval illuminations, art nouveau and art deco. It's a very strange fusion. (VHI.com -- Music News)
Hidden gardens Jun 30, 2008
There are lemon trees; a Mexican orange; a bush called a wavyleaf silktassel, with drooping flowers, that belongs in an Art Nouveau painting; and another whose leaves smell of caramel in the fall. A 100-year-old weeping beech shades a pond whose waterfall pushes away the noise of the streets above. (International Herald Tribune)
Between castles and vineyards - cycling along Neckar Valley Jun 18, 2008
While visiting the city, try dropping into Mannheim's baroque castle where the university is situated or go to Friedrichsplatz to see its spectacular fountain, one of the largest art nouveau style fountains in Europe. To the north of Mannheim's inner city flows the Neckar along which cyclists will travel 130 km to Heilbronn. (Sify.com, India)
The Gustav Stickley Furniture Co. Jun 17, 2008
The Art Nouveau Style. By the end of the 19th century, Beaux Arts had morphed into Art Nouveau in Europe, especially in France ... After a series of only moderately successful partnerships with some of his brothers, Gustav traveled to Europe in 1898, where he saw firsthand works in the Art Nouveau and Arts & Crafts styles and met with their creators. (Suite101.com)
Riga rocks! Latvia's European hotspot Jun 17, 2008
Riga's historic city-center area which is full of Gothic, Baroque and Art Nouveau buildings and the city's plethora of nightspots have made the Latvian capital one of the hottest destinations in Europe for weekend breaks ... More than 800 Art Nouveau buildings possibly the finest collection in Europe and other unique examples of Gothic and Baroque architecture have led to the old town being declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. (MSNBC -- Travel)
In Tbilisi, a Battle Over Buildings Fires Investment Debate Jun 14, 2008
But the timeworn buildings, many of them gems of neoclassicism or Art Nouveau, are starting to crumble, leaving entire households without roofs over their heads. Flaking plaster and yawning wall cracks have become part of the district s look. (EurasiaNet.org)
Gustav Klimt Jun 5, 2008
There is a fair sampling of femmes fatales in art nouveau eveningwear, but though Tate Liverpool has rolled out the red carpet, you are left with the impression of a hyped catwalk show to which too many A-listers declined to attend. Until August 31. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Alton Kelley, 68; graphic artist created iconic psychedelic images Jun 5, 2008
"But we went ahead and looked at American Indian stuff, Chinese stuff, art nouveau, art deco, modern, Bauhaus - whatever. We were stunned by what we found and what we were able to do. We had free rein to just go graphically crazy.". Reporters who were trying to divine the meaning behind the "Summer of Love" soon found him. (Boston Globe)
Paris' old Jewish quarter changing Jun 4, 2008
Designed by Art Nouveau architect Hector Guimard. Phone: 011-33-1- 48-87-21-54. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Bling went the strings of my heart Jun 2, 2008
It is also tense and constrained, with all the whiplash nervousness of its Art Nouveau extraction. It epitomises fin-de-si;cle Vienna. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Wide open spaces, high in Berlin May 30, 2008
With an abundance of unused factories and warehouses and a wealth of Jugendstil, or Art Nouveau, houses available for renovation, Berlin developers are finding new ways to inject style into the city's high-end housing market ... Apartments in older houses, including Art Nouveau properties, typically sell for 3,000 to 4,000 a square meter, or about 400,000, and prices have risen about 10 percent in the past five years, said Frydling of Savills. (International Herald Tribune)
Where to hibernate May 27, 2008
Fringed table lamps and art nouveau and art deco light fittings spread a rosy glow across a gold-coloured, studded padded bar, lush window drapes and tomato-red walls fixed with old fashioned mirrors and delicate ladies' fans. Hearty plates of grilled chorizo, marinated olives, marinated mushrooms and stuffed peppers are delivered from the bar's sister establishment, Soni's, on the ground floor. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Riding the Paris Metro May 24, 2008
The architecture is fairly uniform and influenced by Art Nouveau. Location of Metro Stations. (Suite101.com)
South Africa: Foreign Nationals Imprisoned in Their Homes May 21, 2008
The mix of architectural styles, from a 1905 art nouveau home to semi-detached New York-style brownstone houses, and Victorian mansions, reflect the eclectic style bought by different nationalities during the gold rush. Mahatma Gandhi lived in Troyeville, as did David Webster, a University of Witwatersrand academic and anti-apartheid campaigner assassinated by a government hit squad outside his Eleanor Street home in 1989. (allAfrica.com)
A place to remember, revere lives May 21, 2008
Lichen embroiders art nouveau designs and brilliant green mosses fill in the carved dates, defining lives. Gone but not forgotten. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Antique furniture falling out of favor May 15, 2008
Think French provincial, Mission style or Art Nouveau. These days, Martin said, brown furniture languishes in shops at a fraction of the price it would have demanded even five years ago. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Larger than life May 13, 2008
The iron art nouveau stairs and balcony writhe on one side. Later in the afternoon, when the sun is off the roof, the tension between the sculptural elements and the building reveal themselves and intensify. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Cast is a gift – the set, an obstacle May 8, 2008
With everyone else dressed in a kind of art nouveau, neo-medieval garb, the physician looked absurdly out of place in an ordinary present-day Bay Street suit and tie. Which leads to the production: the set, and some of the costumes, by Dany Lyne. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
Rome hotels at a price that's right Apr 12, 2008
First impression: It's a commanding art nouveau palazzo with an air of opulence -- in a part of the city that tourists rarely see. Rooms: The 12 clubby rooms have dark carpets, striped upholstery in rich shades of green and gold, plush furnishings and sound-proof, wood-paneled walls. (CNN -- Travel)
In a Czech city, '30s modernism lives on Apr 10, 2008
Young architects such as Otto Eisler, Arnost Wiesner and above all Bohuslav Fuchs, who also served as a town planner, rejected Hapsburg historicism and Art Nouveau and instead took their cues from the German, French, Dutch and Austrian avant-garde. In the brief span of 20 years, they transformed the face of the city, producing everything from banks to bus stops, from churches and a synagogue to caf. (International Herald Tribune)
A lake favored by royalty from Rome to Hollywood Mar 30, 2008
Renovated Art Nouveau complex. Singles begin at $315, doubles at $332. (Boston Globe)
Richmond, Virginia's Museum Shops Mar 21, 2008
In addition to menorahs and mezuzahs, best sellers at Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives small gift shop include suncatchers in the design of the synagogue s art nouveau stained glass ceiling and Tiffany Windows coloring books. Children will be delighted with the replicas of early American toys marbles andpewter jacks in leather drawstring bags at Pusey Museum Shop at the Virginia Historical Society Museum. (Suite101.com)
Haute Couture Champagne Mar 20, 2008
The bottles will then be placed in a dedicated area within the historic cellars of the Maison Belle Epoque, which exhibits one of the most prestigious collections of Art Nouveau masterpieces, for about eight months, the time needed for the personalized liquor to marry with the Blanc de Blancs. Most Expensive Champagne in the World 1. (ABC News)
Art appreciation - Maurer's career began with St. Mary's honors class Mar 15, 2008
Randy Maurer posed last week with one of his favorite pieces at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York: a fireplace designed by the French Art Nouveau designer Hector Guimard, c. 1895-1900 ... During his junior year at the University of Minnesota, as an art history major in the Twin Cities, Maurer became intrigued by the Art Nouveau movement, which developed in Paris around the turn of the last century ... While visiting Brussels, in Belgium, Maurer saw an exhibit of Art Nouveau... (Sleepy Eye Herald Dispatch, MN)
Now that's a red carpet Feb 25, 2008
She carried a tiny Art Nouveau French gold-mesh purse by Fred Leighton. AP. (Sydney Morning Herald)
Ski Week In D.C.? Feb 24, 2008
As you skate around the rink, you pass an Art Nouveau archway from the Paris Metro and a neat row of headless statues. When you've had enough of going around in circles, you can warm up in the glass-walled cafe with a hot chocolate or a Chardonnay. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Cultural capital Feb 23, 2008
I spot the entrance to Ascensor Concepcion, marked with arching metal letters in an Art Nouveau script. A dark passage leads to the antiquated station, where my husband fishes out 400 pesos and drops the coins into a cast-metal tray. (Corvallis Gazette Times, OR)
Palau de la Musica Catalana Feb 14, 2008
Barcelonas Art Nouveau Concert Hall Celebrates its Centenary. A year of concerts itions will commemorate 100 years of the astounding building designed in 1908 by Domnech i Montaner, one of Spain's top Modernista architects. (Suite101.com)
New York Fashion Week Feb 8, 2008
The Beatles were on the soundtrack, and the prints were that particular mix of bruised plum and petrol green worked on the sinuous lines of Art Nouveau. But this season, the designer overlaid those familiar colors and patterns, shown in dolly girl shapes, with sophisticated effects of glimmer and sheen inspired by Gustav Klimt, fashion's favorite artist of the moment. (International Herald Tribune)
UNESCO Listed Sites in Belgium Jan 26, 2008
Four town houses by Belgium Art Nouveau architect Victor Horta are on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List: H tel Tassel, H tel Solvay, H tel van Eetvelde, and Maison and Atelier Horta. The latter, where Horta designed literally everything from the building to door hinges and wall decorations, now houses the Horta Museum. (Suite101.com)
Boucheron's 150th: A modern take on Art Nouveau Jan 22, 2008
Boucheron's 150th: A modern take on Art Nouveau - International Herald Tribune ... Boucheron's 150th: A modern take on Art Nouveau ... -work emerald leaves lived up both to the house's Art Nouveau heritage and to the sexually charged titles given to the new "Enchanting" collection. (International Herald Tribune)
Madrid, Spain: Old, new create intoxicating mix Jan 5, 2008
The sumptuous Westin Palace Madrid faces the Museo del Prado and boasts a grand dining room complete with an art nouveau glass cupola. Rates start at $430 per room. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
The MuseumsQuartier Vienna in 2008 Dec 28, 2007
In the summer, "Vienna Circa 1900" ("Wien um 1900") will introduce the new Art Nouveau collection exhibit, while a major Christian Schad (1894-1982) retrospective will debut in September. The new year also has a lot in store for culture fiends at the KUNSTHALLE wien. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Unseen for 110 years, Mucha prints on block Dec 19, 2007
Czech artist one of the most celebrated of art nouveau movement ... NEW YORK - More than 100 bound, hand-painted lithographs by Alphonse Mucha, one of the fathers of the art nouveau movement, go on auction Wednesday ... Art nouveau, which thrived from the late 1880s to the early 1900s, may be one of the most recognized and utilized art movements of the 20th century. (MSNBC -- News)
Historic cemetery may win a new lease on life Dec 14, 2007
The art nouveau and arts and crafts-style gates, which mark the entrance to the coastal cemetery, had received 25 per cent of the vote. "Cemeteries often get overlooked for preservation funding, yet they are so significant and intrinsic to the history of our communities," the Mayor of Waverley, Ingrid Strewe, said. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Merry Karnowsky Gallery Presents IMPERFECT UNION, New Works By Shepard Fairey Nov 29, 2007
Fairey employs the graphic language of the subjects he critiques or celebrates, blending Art Nouveau, hippie, currency and revolutionary propaganda styles. His works utilize bold iconography coupled with decorative elements and, upon closer inspection, reveal sophisticated layers of collage. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
PROOF POSITIVE Nov 25, 2007
Because Lillet turned 120 this year and the company is offering limited-edition bottles, available only in New York and California, adorned with an art nouveau poster that once celebrated the brand's 50th birthday. Plus, a handful of swank bars around town are offering a Lillet-inflected martini called the Vesper. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Ten Must-Visit European Hotels Nov 24, 2007
The sumptuous Art Nouveau details in the lobby alone will take your breath away: delicate wrought-iron vents, exquisite gold mosaic tiles, stained-glass windows and cupolas abound. Spacious rooms with Spanish marble bathrooms offer views of the Danube and the rolling Buda hills. (Forbes)
Five hot hotels in San Francisco Nov 23, 2007
First impression: Renovated in March, the hotel's grand lobby is a mix of styles, with an art nouveau fireplace, '30s portrait sketches in pearly frames, and Victorian crystal skylights. Rooms: The 177 rooms feel luxurious, with gossamer curtains, leather headboards, and clocks with MP3-player hookups. (CNN -- Travel)
Simplicity Behind Saturated Images from New Milford Award Winner Nov 16, 2007
"Other artists have certainly influenced me," said Ms. Crawford, who cites Austrian symbolist Gustav Klimt, a prominent member of the Vienna Art Nouveau movement, and her former teacher Robert Brackman, a Ukrainian-born artist best known for figural works, still lifes and portraits of famous people including the Rockefellers and Charles Lindbergh, as main influences in her art. Amongst contemporaries, she cites Doug Dawson's book "Capturing Light and Color with Pastel" as an inspiration. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
Costumes from Disneys Enchanted at Mansfield Crossing Nov 13, 2007
Acclaimed costume designer Mona May reinvents these characters with the influence of Art Nouveau blending animated art with high fashion. May manifests these costumes in each medium bringing them to life through Princess Giselle (Amy Adams), whose gowns are quickly becoming the new sought-after fashion for young girls. (Easton Journal, MA)
JELD-WEN Challenges Design Students to Door Design Contest Oct 27, 2007
Anna McCorvey's design from the 2007 contest harkens back to an earlier historical period, the Art Nouveau movement of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. McCorvey's radius-top door with an asymmetrical transom is a composition of curving forms. (Yahoo News -- Press Releases)
Simon Henley in "The Architecture of Parking," finds beauty in dark garages Oct 24, 2007
Auguste Perret's Art Nouveau facade on the Rue de Ponthieu in Paris is a historical monument and Henley recommends, while visiting Venice, a stop at Eugenio Miozzi's huge 1930s Autorimessa, especially admirable when the viewer looks up while lying on his back. Konstantin Melnikov's amazing 1,000-space garage which was to span the Seine in Paris (1925) was never built, nor was Louis Kahn's project for central Philadelphia (1947-62) or Richard Neutra's project with ramped decks in 1940. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
wine temples of Rioja, Spain Oct 21, 2007
" Visitors, however, should not expect just-drop-on-by California-style tasting rooms. Despite Ruta del Vino signs sprouting up at roadside, the majority of Rioja's bodegas retain their old ways. All five of Rioja's vanguard wineries, however, have tours at scheduled hours, usually twice a day, reservations required. Bodegas Ysios Bodegas Ysios was next on my list. Unlike Marqus de Riscal's bauble-on-the-landscape appearance and Via Real's downplayed exterior, Bodegas Ysios is architectural... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Heaven on earth Oct 20, 2007
Gaud; is the genius of modernisme - not "modernism" as we now understand the word but a very different aesthetic, a distinctive Catalan version of art nouveau's florid response to the challenge of turn-of-the-century life ... Perhaps the closest thing to Gaud;'s flowing architecture outside Barcelona are the sinuous art nouveau bronze tendrils of Paris metro station entrances - one of which can be seen now in the Salvador Dal; museum in his birthplace, Figueras, near Barcelona. (Guardian Unlimited)
'Sex and the City' returns, with fashion to spare Oct 6, 2007
"The London designers had a really good season; she may pull from Christopher Kane, Mario Schwab, Clare Tough. Dolce and Gabbana looked fabulous and Prada was very curvy in an Art Nouveau kind of way.". Whatever she is wearing, Carrie Bradshaw will no doubt be wearing it with her Manolo Blahniks, a brand now coveted - thanks to the show - from Toronto to Tours. (International Herald Tribune)
It's, Like, The Galleria Oct 5, 2007
The lobby is at once cozy and elegant, exuding a noirish past but with a convivial bent (how could it not with an Art Nouveau fireplace. The rooms, however, seem to incline more toward the Ikea-esque, with stylish, boxy nightstands and desk. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Jess Cartner-Morley's verdict Sep 28, 2007
On the catwalk this translated into a peculiar mix of Biba and Art Nouveau, with the cartoonish femininity of a sailors' tattoo parlour thrown in: flared trousers, sculptural velvet platform sandals, tunics over cropped trousers. Much of the collection, along with the catwalk backdrop, was painted with sinister floral scenes - weeping Tinkerbells peeping from behind choking, Triffid-esqe plants: half Flower Fairy, half Edward Munch. (Guardian Unlimited)
Roberto Cavalli's Belle Époque and Antonio Marras's Art Nouveau Sep 27, 2007
poque and Antonio Marras's Art Nouveau - International Herald Tribune ... poque and Antonio Marras's Art Nouveau ... There is an Art Nouveau thing going on in fashion, with sinuous prints at Prada and Pre-Raphaelite inspirations from Antonio Marras. (International Herald Tribune)
Three Studies in Color Sep 27, 2007
This evening she went on a kind of Art Nouveau acid trip that involved gingham, plaid pajama silks and hand-painted floral prints and organza appliques reminiscent of an Alphonse Mucha illustration. It was funky and wild and daring. (Time.com)
Cut-price classics Sep 20, 2007
However, one that is in unusually good repair is the Enescu museum, housed in an art nouveau mansion owned by the composer's aristocratic wife. The smaller house behind it, which is where Enescu briefly lived, has been lovingly preserved. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Every pattern tells a story Sep 15, 2007
Popular design blogs such as Apartment Therapy and Design*Sponge have been featuring a lush crop of new wallpaper designs recently: Traditional prints in bright colours, bold baroque and art nouveau patterns, metallics and even scratch-and-sniff banana and cherry prints testify to wallpaper's renewed trendiness ... Interior photographs are a rare godsend - a Saturday Night magazine feature from 1915 allowed him to place a particularly striking brown and green art nouveau print in the front foyer... (Globe and Mail)
Controversy over Prague's development Aug 28, 2007
This clashes dramatically with the art nouveau Municipal House, one of Prague's most beautiful buildings, located across the street. But so far there has been little political will to stop projects like this. (MSNBC -- International)
Acropolis View Endangers 85-Year-old's Home, Splits Ministers and Vangelis Aug 16, 2007
No neoclassicism, no Art Nouveau. The white-haired great-grandmother looks at her pink and grey marble Art Deco apartment building and says: ``We're going straight from antiquity to now. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
The Best of Verona: Beyond Juliet Aug 3, 2007
Visit walled Verona to see one of the best-preserved Roman amphitheaters, art-filled churches, a Renaissance garden and architecture from Venetian to Art Nouveau ... Art Nouveau Neighborhood -- Also across the river, at the end of Ponte Vittorio, lies several streets lined with mansions built by the rising merchant class at the turn of the 20th century. (Suite101.com)
What Doesn't Make an Icon Aug 2, 2007
The book is a jumble of Art Nouveau oddities, enduring forms, and precursors to modern classics. (Gunnar Aagaard Andersen's 1964 urethane foam armchair, dubbed a "curious brown anti-object" by then-director Arthur Drexler, bears a surprising similarity to Jerszy Seymour's Scum collection. (BusinessWeek)
Paris lives for decadence Jul 21, 2007
Perfectly situated next to the Tuileries near the Louvre, this classic Paris hotel, which opened in 1835, embraces a bar and two restaurants, including Le Jardin d'Hiver, featuring a tiled mosaic floor beneath an art nouveau glass roof. Hotel Fouquet's Barri;re, 46 Ave. Georges V, phone: +33 (0)1 40 69 60 00. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Thirsty for knowledge? Intelligent escapades Jul 14, 2007
Tango courses are available at the Maison Dandi Royal, an Art Nouveau hotel located in San Telmo, a bohemian neighborhood in Buenos Aires. Kathy Holler, managing director of destination sales for Virtuoso, a consortium of high-end travel agencies, says taking a vacation to pick up new skillswhich she dubs experiential travelis very popular today. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Baltic boom states face a hard landing Jul 5, 2007
Crumbling Art Nouveau mansion blocks have been renovated, sold and now stand empty while their speculative buyers wait for prices to rise further. advertisement. (MSNBC -- Business)
Mack is Back Jun 30, 2007
The thrill was in building cabinetry, trim, light fixtures and furniture in the style of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, a Scottish architect/designer whose take on Art Nouveau jelled with the European Arts & Crafts movement near the turn of the 20th century ... "I was so used to American Arts & Crafts. My house has an Art Nouveau look in places, but that's too foofy," she said. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
DRAWN: creating comic books comes naturally to missoulian who studied wildlife biology Jun 29, 2007
Although the plot sounds like an offshoot of "The Outer Limits or "The Twilight Zone," Bordell's obsession with classic horror and science fiction stories blends seamlessly with his firm grasp on history and culture.Readers might spot an allusion to Vincent Price's classic film "House on Haunted Hill" in one scene, detect a sarcastic jab at the Ghostbusters movies in another, then stumble over some out-of-the-way praise for Austrian symbolist painter Gustav Klimt.In this respect, Bordell... (Missoulian, MT)
* Return to the Summer of Love Jun 28, 2007
And it lives on on the runways in collections as diverse as those of Marc Jacobs, whose secondary spring line pulsed with patchwork effects and mixed floral prints, and Roberto Cavalli, who paraded a sweeping gown with Art Nouveau flourishes and butterfly sleeves on his catwalk for fall. Scholars of the hippie era are hardly surprised that such shows and styles are finding an audience. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
