Art Nouveau

The genius of Art Nouveau is the emphasis on bringing a design aesthetic based on natural forms to everything we touch in our daily lives, from a cathedral to a jewelry box. There is no object that couldn’t be improved by seeing it as a work of art, as the leading Art Nouveau artists did. It’s no surprise to me that although this design movement was preeminent for no more than 15 years, surviving examples both large and small remain strongly fixed in the public consciousness today.