Read Art Nouveau: The Living Line
For about twenty years, from the early 1890s to the First World War, architects across Europe tried to do something no earlier generation had attempted: to invent a complete modern style from nature itself, and to carry it from the street facade through the stairwell and into the chair, the lamp and the glass.
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