Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The first major building to be constructed in the Art Deco style was the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées (1910–1913). The first design for the building was made by the Belgian Henry van de Velde, who was a major figure of the German Werkbund, an association promoting modern decorative arts.
The Musée des Arts Décoratifs (French pronunciation: [myze dez‿aʁ dekɔʁatif], English: Museum of Decorative Arts) is a museum in Paris, France, dedicated to the exhibition and preservation of the decorative arts. Located in the city’s 1st arrondissement, the museum occupies the Pavillon de Marsan, the north-western wing of the Palais ...
Musée des Tissus et des Arts décoratifs, Lyon, France; Latvian Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Riga, Latvia; Museum of Decorative Arts, Berlin (Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin), Germany; Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague (Uměleckoprůmyslové museum v Praze), Czech Republic; National Museum of Ireland – Decorative Arts and History ...
The Kunstgewerbemuseum, or Museum of Decorative Arts, is an internationally important museum of the decorative arts in Berlin, Germany, part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums).
Palace of Fontainebleau (/ ˈ f ɒ n t ɪ n b l oʊ / FON-tin-bloh, US also /-b l uː /-bloo; [1] French: Château de Fontainebleau [ʃɑto d(ə) fɔ̃tɛnblo]), located 55 kilometers (34 miles) southeast of the center of Paris, in the commune of Fontainebleau, is one of the largest French royal châteaux.
Altes Museum (Old museum) on Museum Island in Berlin The most important architect of this style in Germany was undoubtedly Karl Friedrich Schinkel . Schinkel's style, in his most productive period, is defined by its appeal to Greek rather than Roman architecture, avoiding the style that was linked to the recent French occupiers.
The architecture of the United States demonstrates a broad variety of architectural styles and built forms over the country's history of over two centuries of independence and former Spanish, French, Dutch and British rule. Architecture in the United States has been shaped by many internal and external factors and regional distinctions.
Hunt, the first American architect to study at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, [3] designed residences, including those for the Vanderbilt family, during the 1870s, 1880s and 1890s. [4] A relatively rare style in the United States, its presence was concentrated in the Northeast , [ 3 ] although isolated examples can be found in nearly all ...