Let me set the scene. Natural light pours in through arched windows trimmed with stained glass, staircases are lined with intricately curved railing, and soft but bold colors come to life through ...

Art lovers may remember that 7 years ago the Dayton Art Institute hosted an exhibit focused on the style of decorative art known as Art Nouveau and one of its most popular artists, Alphonse Mucha.

It was ‘the DNA of modern life’. Cath Pound explores what an extraordinary international design movement tells us about the world. Art Nouveau was the first self-consciously international modern art ...

It is difficult to convey the giddy joy I felt one day in Berlin-that gray grid of a city-upon opening an unsuspecting gate and feeling in my hand no ordinary doorknob, but iron in the shape of a ...