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Expo about Otto Wagner in Vienna – Opens 15 March 2018

Next year Wien Museum will hold the first major exhibition about Otto Wagner work in half a century to commemorate the 100 years of his death. Sketches, models, furniture, painting and personal effects will be on display in the Wien Museum from 15th March to the 17th of October 2018. Otto Wagner (1841-1918) revolutionized architecture…

Klimt & Schiele at Pushkin Museum, Moscow – until Jan. 14th, 2018

The first large-scale exhibition of artworks by Klimt and Schiele in Russia will display artworks from the collection of the Albertina Museum (Vienna) will be displayed – 47 drawings by Gustav Klimt and 49 drawings by Egon Schiele. The display at The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts is based on the rich collection of the…

New world auction record for a piece of Art Nouveau jewellery

This week it was set a new world auction record for any piece of Art Nouveau jewelry as well as for a piece of jewellery by René Lalique. The top lot of the auction was the following Art Nouveau enamel, diamond and pearl pendant necklace by Lalique, fetching $978,480, smashing its $131,000 high estimate. It happened this…

Exhibit “Hector Guimard, forerunner of design” in Paris until 9/12

To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the famous Art Nouveau architect Hector Guimard (1867-194), the association Cercle Guimard dedicates him an exceptional exhibition on the ground floor of the Hotel Mezzara, 60 rue Jean de La Fontaine, Paris 16th, until the 9th of December, from 10 am to 6 pm. “Hector Guimard, forerunner of design” is…

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Buy the book with the best Art Nouveau pictures ever – 250€

Keiichi Tahara captures Europe’s finest Art Nouveau architecture details in an exquisite book titled  Architecture Fin-de-Siècle. This amazing book can be a great Christmas present and if you buy it, please click in our link before you do the online purchase. has more than 500 beautiful pictures of Art Nouveau European gems is a three-volume set (weighting more than 10 kilograms)…

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Art Nouveau Luxury hotels opening soon in Paris & Prague

Luxury continues to grow faster than any other segment of the travel industry and to cater this growing demand new properties are opening all over the world. New hotels open worldwide with premium facilities and locations. A way to make new hotels unique is to establish them in exclusive buildings. Because Art Nouveau is more and…

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Giuseppe Sommaruga Year – Palazzo Castiglioni (10 best pics)

This year Italy and Milan celebrate “The Giuseppe Sommaruga Year” to celebrate the 100 years that passed since the year he died. He is recognised as the most important architect of the Liberty Style, the name of the Art nouveau movement in Italy. Giuseppe Sommaruga (1867–1917) lived half a Century which was not a short life at that time…

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Art Nouveau temporary exhibit in St Petersburg

A temporary exhibition about Modern style (Art Nouveau in Russia) has just opened inside the Museum of the History of St Petersburg – a popular museum located in the Saints Peter and Paul fortress of Russia’s second-largest city after Moscow. You can visit this exhibition in the Engineers’ House (Peter and Paul Fortress, 4 st. Gorkovskaya) until…

Mackintosh Festival, Glasgow, October, 2017

Throughout October 2017, the sixth annual Mackintosh Festival will celebrate the achievements of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow’s most famous architect, designer and artist. This year’s month-long festival starts on Sunday October 1 and has an extensive programme of events will take place in Glasgow Mackintosh venues with a focus on architecture, design, visual arts and crafts. You…

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The muse and actress Sarah Bernhardt was a real “Influencer”

Sarah Bernhardt, born in Paris in 1844, was a French stage actress from Paris who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and is considered the muse of Art Nouveau. “The Divine” was discovered by Alphonse Mucha and was his muse for a long time. Her portrait was…