A retro circus returns to the Boca big top, and Art Nouveau flourishes in Palm Beach. Plus, classic crooner Brian Hyland and ...

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 ...

Prague spring blossoms with the curlicued flowers and vines of Art Nouveau. Born in Paris to a Czech designer and popularized by a Belgian, the aesthetic movement defined fin-de-siècle aesthetic ...

Organic, sinuous lines, with vines snaking around stylized letters, ethereal women with flowing tresses, and botanical borders characterize the style of Art Nouveau, the enduringly popular movement ...

From enamel laden engagement rings to golden cameo cufflinks, there's a piece of art nouveau jewelry for everyone—whether there's a wedding on the horizon or not. Every item on this page was chosen by ...

Medusa plates, ‘Challenger Reports, vol. 4’ (1882), Royal Society Edinburgh Archive (all images from ‘Art Forms from the Abyss: Ernst Haeckel’s Images From The HMS Challenger Expedition,’ courtesy ...

Art nouveau could be said to be the first 20th century modern style. It was the first style to stop looking backwards in history for ideas, taking inspiration instead from what it saw around it, in ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Nancy, in eastern France, was the heart of Art Nouveau, the movement of swirling tendrils, budding flowers, ...

Down a quiet sidestreet in Brussels, just off Avenue Louise, stands a terraced house that transformed our idea of architecture and design. The Hotel Tassel isn’t a hotel – in French, the word merely ...