L'Art Nouveau: Nature, Lignes Courbes, et Asymétrie en Architecture

Art Nouveau is often associated with its natural, sinuous lines and floral lyricism — but beneath lies an obsession with metamorphosis and the uncanny study of nature. From Tiffany Studios’ Scarab Humidor Box, which channels the Egyptian beetle’s ancient symbolism of death and rebirth, to the Cobweb and Apple Blossom Tea Screen, where fragility and entrapment coexist in Favrile glass, this aesthetic often existed between elegance and pensiveness. Gabriel Argy-Rousseau’s Araignées et Ronces (Spid