The architecture combines features of European Art Nouveau—large horseshoe-shaped windows, curving porch supports and ceramic panels—with traditional Old Russian elements, such as a frieze at ...

Both the theatre’s building and all of Kamergersky Lane are a monument to Moscow Art Nouveau. Over the theatre’s main entrance is the “Wave” bas-relief, which was also made in the Art ...

The Art Nouveau Dacha reprints a remarkable architectural pattern book from 1917 St Petersburg, which records the astounding variety of styles and levels of sophistication achieved by the traditional ...

Here in Moscow’s version of the Hamptons, the final touches were being applied to a five-bedroom estate built in the Russian Art Nouveau style for a wealthy Moscow couple. Rising among firs ...

Art Nouveau architecture is a design style defined by dramatic, nature-inspired ornamentation, often with whiplash curves and flowing lines that look like vines.At its core, Art Nouveau ...

Russian folk art has never been much collected in Western Europe. But now, there are signs it is drawing greater interest, including in the Western antique market and the art world, as viewers and ...

Discovering Art Nouveau The early modernist style, evocative of the natural world, can be seen in abundance in whimsical buildings along the Danube and elsewhere in Europe. By ...

Our guide to Art Nouveau architecture explores the late 19th-century movement known for flowing lines and organic forms and how it influenced the culture.