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Coup de Fouet (Whiplash) Magazine
Since a year or so, I have been subscribed to “Coup de Fouet”, a magazine published by Art Nouveau European Route, a non-profit association of local governments and non-governmental institutions that...
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Palais Lumière, Évian-les-Bains
For those of you who are located in the vicinity of the Geneva lake, there is an interesting exhibition coming your way: Major Art Nouveau collection of the Oise Departmental Museum on display at the...
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Art Nouveau and the Nouveau Riche
Do you ever wonder what it must have been like, to live in 1900? What it must have been like to live in an age where the sky seemed to be the limit. Where new technologies developed so rapidly,...
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Steegoversloot 22-24, Dordrecht
For so long I have wanted to take pictures and write about this beautiful house, but every single time I drove by, there was a car parked in front of it, and for quite a while there was even a fence...
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Siegfried Bing (1838-1905)
If I were to name one person who made Art Nouveau big in Europe, it would be Siegfried Bing (1838-1905). During his entire life, Bing gathered young artists with new ideas around him, he inspired them...
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Cogels-Osylei 55, Berchem, Antwerp
From all spectacular buildings at Cogels-Osylei, my personal favorite is a rather simple house called De Morgenster, Morning Star. It was built by architect Joseph Bascourt (1863-1927), and as far as I...
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Opus Sectile in Delft
As you may have noticed by now, I am kind of an Art Nouveau addict. Even when I just have to go to another town for a birthday party or a trade fair, I can’t resist and take my camera along. Today I...
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Passion – Function – Beauty
In April, I wrote about 2013 being the 150th birth year of Henry van de Velde and I listed the activities taking place in Europe to celebrate this great artists work. My post was a retrospective of the...
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The Dijsselhofkamer, The Hague
Gemeente Museum The HagueArchitect Berlage When visiting The Hague’s Gemeente Museum, Art Nouveau lovers are treated to a very special room called de Dijsselhofkamer, the Dijsselhof room. The interior...
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Marthinus Steynstraat 69, Dordrecht
Cycling through Dordrecht, I recently ran into this interesting facade. In a tiny street where you would least expect to find Art Nouveau architecture, I got intrigued by questions like “who made this,...
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Burg. De Raadtsingel 45, Dordrecht
Priest v.d. Cammen Across from Dordrechts main station, a neo-Gothic church, named after St. Anthony of Padua, was built in 1920-1921 to a 1916 design from architect Nicolaas Molenaar. After the...
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Hôtel Hannon, Brussels
These photo’s have been on my laptop for quite some time now, and I can’t wait any longer; I really want to share them with you! There isn’t very much to tell you about the house but that should be...
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The Nature of Art Nouveau
The Nature of Art Nouveau is a travelling exhibition 2013-2015 organised by the Réseau Art Nouveau Network in the framework of the European project Art Nouveau & Ecology (2010-2015) supported by...
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Die Bücher der Bibel
Last week I received a request from a reader. A request to pay some attention to a book which he would like to sell to an Art Nouveau lover rather than to a book dealer. The book “Die Bücher der Bibel”...
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Spuistraat 274, Amsterdam
Friday was a beautiful day! I traveled to Amsterdam to meet my old friend Pia whom I had not seen in 3 years. And you know what? Pia had prepared an Art Nouveau tour through her hometown Amsterdam. She...
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Art Nouveau Wallpaper
In April 2013 we bought an Art Nouveau home for our family and we have been renovating it since. We have steamed off 6 to 7 layers of old wallpaper in most of the rooms, electrical wiring has been...
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Haarlemmerdijk 39, Amsterdam
The next Art Nouveau building I came across on my Amsterdam tour with Pia is this one at Haarlemmerdijk 39, designed by Francois Marie Joseph Caron (1866-1945) in 1896. As the Haarlemmerdijk used to be...
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Haarlemmerdijk 140, Amsterdam
Haarlemmerdijk 140, Amsterdam© Thomas Schlijper What an amazing discovery today! While surfing the web for information about Haarlemmerdijk 43, I found another Art Nouveau building (on-line) in the...
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Haarlemmerdijk 43, Amsterdam
Those who have read my latest posts know I recently went to Amsterdam to visit my dear friend Pia. Pia had prepared me a tour along some beautiful Art Nouveau buildings of which I have already shared...
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Happy Valentine’s Day!
Tagged: Art Nouveau, Jugendstil, Postcard, Secession, Valentine, Vintage
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