For centuries, smooth, polished silver was the metal favored for luxurious serving pieces. That changed by the mid-1870s, when Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts metalsmiths, searching for a new look, ...

A painter who ended up in India fleeing World War II. This unplanned episode led to the creation of unusual decorations: the conjoining of European art nouveau with Indian traditions in the palaces of ...

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 ...