Young Poland – The Polish Arts and Crafts Movement 1890 – 1918
At the moment, there’s a wonderful exhibition on show at the William Morris Gallery in London. And normally, I would …
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Great Danes | Porcelain Masterpieces, Copenhagen 1890-1930
Between 1890 and 1930 Danish porcelain manufacturers Royal Copenhagen and Bing & Grøndahl produced beautiful ceramic objects that were admired …
Goddesses of Art Nouveau
Due to the Corona-pandemic, this exhibition kept being postponed time and again. But after almost a year of waiting, I …
Discovering Art Nouveau during COVID lock-downs
Since COVID-19 struck our planet in March 2020, we have been in various stages of lock-down and ordinary ways of …
Hôtel Mezzara, 60 Rue Jean de la Fontaine, Paris
Not many people may know this, but there is something important going on behind the scenes in Paris. Art Nouveau …
Art Nouveau in Amsterdam 1895-1910
If you have been reading my blog for a while, you may have noticed that I am particularly keen on …
Le Pater: Alphonse Mucha’s Masterpiece of Symbolism
In April 2016, I reported about the plans of Century Guild on reprinting Mucha’s Le Pater. Well, that plan was …
Mozart’s Requiem: An Illuminated Manuscript
In this day and age of digital illustrations and Photoshop, Matt Hughes might be one of a dying breed. In …
Two Dutch Architects in Paris
A few weeks ago I received an incredibly interesting book in the mail. The book is called Two Dutch architects …
W.B. van Liefland (1857-1919)
At the moment Dutch author Peter van Dam (1948) is working on a monumental project: he is writing a series …
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