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Photo by Eke Miedaner, Art Nouveau Staircase at Livraria Lello & Irmão Bookstore, Rua das Carmelitas 144, Porto, Portugal. Design by engineer Francisco Xavier Esteves,1906.
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Casa Nàvas, Reus, Catalonia, Spain,
Designed by the renowned architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner and decorated by Gaspar Homar between 1901 and 1908, it was originally the personal residence and "house shop" of the affluent textile merchant Joachim Nàvas.
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"La Samaritaine," Art-Nouveau department store, Paris, France,
Raphael Metivet Photography
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The Hôtel Tassel , Brussels, Belgium, designed by Victor Horta for the scientist and professor Emile Tassel, and built from 1892 to 1893.
It is generally considered the first true Art Nouveau building.
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Budapest, 5th district, Nádor utca
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Casa Jeroni Granell en Barcelona, ESPAÑA
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Staff Pick of the Week
Louey Chisholm compiled over 200 poems and an additional twenty cradle verses into The Golden Staircase Poems for Children. Chisholm’s goal when creating this book was to inspire children to not only enjoy poetry, but to pass it onto future generations, and wanted every school to have it on their shelves.
The first American edition was published in 1906. This edition published a year later features eight illustrations by English artist Minnie Dibdin Spooner which were printed by Stoddart and Malcolm in Edinburgh. The book itself was published in New York by G. P. Puntam’s Sons and in Edinburgh by T.C. and E.C. Jack.
I was drawn initially to the book because of its dark blue cloth cover, gold-stamped on all sides with ornate Art Nouveau floral designs, which I saw almost everyday as I walked by. When I finally pulled it off the shelf, I was equally struck by Spooner’s colorful and playful illustrations and just had to share. The book forms part of our Historical Curriculum Collection and was a gift from our friends Megan Holbrook and Eric Vogel.
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-- Sarah W., Special Collections Undergraduate Intern
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Art Nouveau Staircase By Ede Magyar, Hungary
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Livraria Lello Porto, Portugal,
Livraria Lelloart no has art nouveau and Neo-Gothic architecture and was frequented by Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling when she taught English in Porto - its gorgeous, curving staircase is rumored to have been an inspiration for the staircases of Hogwarts.
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You head north, because…because you feel like it, that’s why. The corridor is what you are coming to think of as Labyrinth Standard Concrete. You reach a doorway on your left and it continues on.
Looking through the doorway, you see a room so tall that the ceiling is lost in shadow. In the center is an absolutely amazing spiral staircase. It is the sort of staircase that Art Nouveau sculptors dream about when they have been hitting the absinthe a little too hard.
For one thing, each step appears to be made of a single piece of ivory, and where they found tusks six feet long and two feet wide, you couldn’t begin to guess. There are round gemstones the size of quail eggs inset into the ivory steps, and rubies the size of chicken eggs studding the central pillar, surrounded by mother-of-pearl settings. The outer railing is more curved ivory carved in a delicate spiral, worked with gold filigree, set with even more gems, and stained a remarkable shade of shell-pink.
The whole thing gives you the impression that the creator had both a limitless budget and absolutely no concept of restraint. It’s…okay, yeah, arguably it’s tasteless, but that’s probably because it’s sitting in a weird little concrete room. It would look fine in a palace. Or the British Museum, once they’d looted said palace.
Given the distinct lack of treasure in this place so far, your gob is pretty thoroughly smacked.
When you finally tear your eyes from the staircase, you see a rickety iron ladder affixed to the wall and what looks like a stone with a plaque on it in front of the first step.
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