Back in downtown Budapest, the 20th-century tragedy is masked by stylish cafes and Art Nouveau apartments.
In 2004, Ms. Edelstahl started hosting artist salons in her Art Nouveau-themed living room.
He then made his own version of it, which is visibly influenced by the Art Nouveau movement.
The sepulchre of Rufina Cambaceres is a beautiful Art Nouveau work depicting a young woman tearfully opening heaven's door.
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The ship's design, a mix of Art Deco and Art Nouveau, brings guests right back to the time of 1930s ocean liners.
An exuberant architectural blend of Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles, Baburizza occupies a prominent building on the pedestrian walkway Paseo Yugoslavia.
"Barcelona has Gaudi, Chicago has Frank Lloyd Wright and Glasgow has the unmistakable Art Nouveau magic of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, " she said.
The balustrades of the stairs are of burnished, darker-green terra cotta with Shakespearean heads trapped in newel posts of luxuriant, sinuous art nouveau foliage.
She tried to envelop metallic fabrics, the textures of Gustav Klimt's portraits and a free-spirited mood all into the overarching theme of Art Nouveau.
Once famous for its clay pipes, the company branched into ceramics and became expert in the production of Art Nouveau and Art Deco styles.
Gorgeous art nouveau details, such as the sweeping wroughtiron balustrade on the central staircase, are the hallmark of the Tulip House Boutique Hotel Sleep 14.
Art Nouveau master Klimt is one of Austria's most celebrated painters.
The Grand Hotel Europa, a stunning Art Nouveau building on the north side of Wenceslas Square, was known to Kafka as the Hotel Erzherzog Stefan.
The indoor swimming pools are the most beautiful in Budapest, with the main pool having a glass dome, Art Nouveau mosaics, stained-glass windows and many statues.
Visitors will enter the domed Art Nouveau ticket hall of Schaerbeek station, built in 1913 and previously the departure point for night trains to Italy and France.
Semi-hidden at Odins among lush Art Nouveau lamps and mirrors, portraits of Edwardian society beauties and academic landscapes, are works by Messrs Proctor, Kitaj and Hockney.
Bits of Mackintosh, arts and crafts, and academic classicism, as well as a floral-dominated, charmingly uptight, Americanized art nouveau, were all part of a densely packed decorative scheme.
Opened in 1866, this incredible cemetery boasts 250, 000 square-metres of eclectic art nouveau sculptures including Greek temples, elaborate obelisks and giant, glass-fronted, marble tombs that could pass for houses.
In a city renowned for its art nouveau treasures, the Liceu predated them with its own mid-Victorian fusion of gold and brown, blue and crimson almost more gaudy than Gaudi.
The Art Nouveau structure, built in 1903, was transformed into a design hotel in 2012, showcasing granite walls lined with contemporary art, and stained glass windows that evoke a Harry Potter-like vibe.
An offshoot of art nouveau, Catalan modernisme was kick-started by the reawakening of the region's art and language during the late 19th century, following 200 years of suppression by their Spanish overlords.
During this summer's festivities, the example of Glasgow (like Nancy, a provincial city with a strong Art Nouveau tradition which is now being revived) was quoted and explained at several symposia here.
As we ducked out of one of the Art Nouveau apartment block lobbies, hidden behind thoroughly quotidian-looking front doors, I remarked at how wide the road was, an oddity for a town as old as this.
Philadelphia's Museum of Art, the Corning Glass Museum (in New York state) and London's mighty Victoria and Albert where a major Art Nouveau exhibition opens next April have all loaned Nancy pieces for its exhibitions.
He referenced botanical motifs and brocade patterns from civilizations as far back as ancient Greece, and moved up through the Baroque, the Enlightenment and Art Nouveau, taking side trips to Persia, Turkey and China.
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French designer Ruhlmann (1879-1933) was known for using ivory and rare woods like Macassar ebony to make pieces with streamlined shapes and simple curves a departure from the ornate, florid carvings of the Art Nouveau style that predated him.
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At the turn of the 20th century, he moved from Italy's sunny Adriatic coast to Paris in order to be closer to the epicenter of the Art Nouveau movement, picking up clients, such as Jean Cocteau, along the way.
In its designs it was still guided by the art nouveau tastes of its founder, Louis Comfort Tiffany, who restyled the interior of the White House in the 1880s and became the most fashionable decorator in New York .
Setting itself firmly in Mitteleuropa rather than the Balkans, the country has transformed its capital of Ljubljana into a pedestrianised, cafe-kissed oasis, where a collage of refurbished medieval, Baroque and Art Nouveau buildings shine as brightly as the shimmering waters of the Ljubljanica River.
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