Miami — South Beach and Tropical Art Déco
South Beach holds one of the largest concentrations of Art Déco architecture anywhere. A few blocks of pastel hotels turned a Depression-era resort into a…
South Beach holds one of the largest concentrations of Art Déco architecture anywhere. A few blocks of pastel hotels turned a Depression-era resort into a…
In Munich the German variant of Art Nouveau found both its name and its first practitioners. The city gave the style the word that still carries it…
On a hill east of the city centre, Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig gathered a community of artists in 1899. Their buildings on the Mathildenhöhe became one of the…
Turin’s most theatrical Liberty address — a corner building on Corso Francia crowned by a slender medieval tower and guarded by fierce dragon sculptures that…
Giovanni Battista Bossi’s corner palazzina on Via Malpighi is one of Milan’s most complete Liberty statements, where Alessandro Mazzucotelli’s wrought iron…
New York compressed the full arc from Gilded Age luxury to Art Déco verticality into a single generation. Louis Comfort Tiffany redefined glass as fine art…
In 1893 Victor Horta completed the Hôtel Tassel on rue Paul-Émile Janson — and with it, invented architectural Art Nouveau. The building’s iron columns…
Barcelona nicknamed it “the quarry” as an insult. Gaudí’s last house has outlived the joke.
A garden city that almost no one bought — and so became the most joyful public park in Barcelona.
Memories at Old Ford Factory is Singapore’s national WWII museum housed in the former Ford Motor Company assembly plant on Upper Bukit Timah Road, built in…