Martin Klasch (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Joei de vivre (Anthony Gross & Hector Hoppin/1934) "...in this case a sophisticated version of Perrault's Cinderella. Instead of working from designs from children's illustrated books, this film incorporates elements from French art nouveau posters, the fine art of Matisse and visual ideas from the Post Impressionists and Italian Futurists . The choreography is very imaginative, and constantly plays...
core77.com (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
The Legomaniacs at this week's BrickCon in Seattle numbered roughly 3,200; from millions of Lego blocks were wrought Battlestar Galactica sets, Art Nouveau movie theaters, military parades, cities under attack by zombies, Spider-Man re-enactments, you name it. It's Friday, so you can burn at least half the day browsing the roughly 5,200 images in the ever-growing BrickCon Flickr pool . via makezine...
Luxury Property Blog (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
[caption id="attachment_1494" align="alignright" width="300" caption="Art Nouveau Villa for sale in Vienna - €5 million"][/caption] A new website marketing luxury properties launched this week - EliteAlps.com The site focuses purely on properties in the tourism hot spots in Austria. (...)
Retro To Go (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Although Danish designer, Georg Jensen died in the 1935, t the company bearing his name still continues to produce beautiful pieces in his favoured Art Nouveau style. The Georg Jensen Living Teapot is a great example of the company’s current...
Knockin on History’s Door (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
This beautiful, apparently Art Nouveau style door is in Brussels, on Rue de Lac. You can see that it incorporates the normal windows that surround a door, but in a completely new way – the entire purpose of the Art Nouveau movement. When viewing the thumbnail, I first thought that the actual door was this bobble-ended [...]
The Informed Traveler (Free subscription) | 30/09/2008
Word on the street is that Budapest (as cosmopolitan a metropolis as it is) was blown away by the debut of the Four Seasons Gresham Palace. Easily the poshest hotel on the block, this palatial property is a masterfully-restored Art Nouveau landmark offering panoramic vistas across the mighty Danube to the hills of Buda. You [...]
Spectator - The Magazine (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
It’s difficult not to admire the ambition of the V&A in mounting exhibitions which summarise and explain the great historical movements in design. There have been notable successes in the past, particularly with their surveys of Art Nouveau and Art Deco, but the closer the organisers approach our own times, the more fraught with complication is the enterprise. It’s almost impossible to locate and...
Shoewawa (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
Freya Rose's latest collection of handmade shoes is inspired by the Art Nouveau period, and these red kid leather and suede pumps
New York Newsday (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
Louis Comfort Tiffany was a Long Island celebrity who, at the height of his success, built a fabled mansion, Laurelton Hall, on the western shore of Cold Spring Harbor. The Art Nouveau styling of his stained-glass windows and lamps challenged the prevailing dark Victorian style of the time.
Chez Loulou (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Such gorgeous Art Nouveau doors! Not sure if this bath house is still open or if the Bains -Douches sign is a remnant of the building's former life.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Victoria: Pacific Opera is proud to present its first Magic Flute in over 20 years. A production infused with the graceful spirit and elegance of fin-de-siècle Vienna and inspired by Otto Wagner’s art nouveau structures with their harmonious marriage of beauty and function.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Victoria: Pacific Opera is proud to present its first Magic Flute in over 20 years. A production infused with the graceful spirit and elegance of fin-de-siècle Vienna and inspired by Otto Wagner’s art nouveau structures with their harmonious marriage of beauty and function.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Victoria: Pacific Opera is proud to present its first Magic Flute in over 20 years. A production infused with the graceful spirit and elegance of fin-de-siècle Vienna and inspired by Otto Wagner’s art nouveau structures with their harmonious marriage of beauty and function.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Victoria: Pacific Opera is proud to present its first Magic Flute in over 20 years. A production infused with the graceful spirit and elegance of fin-de-siècle Vienna and inspired by Otto Wagner’s art nouveau structures with their harmonious marriage of beauty and function.
HarbourLiving.ca (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Victoria: Pacific Opera is proud to present its first Magic Flute in over 20 years. A production infused with the graceful spirit and elegance of fin-de-siècle Vienna and inspired by Otto Wagner’s art nouveau structures with their harmonious marriage of beauty and function.
