Maison de l'Art Nouveau
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The Maison de l'Art Nouveau ("House of New Art"), also known as the Maison Bing or most precisely L'Art Nouveau, was a gallery opened on on 26 December 1895, by Siegfried Bing at 22 rue de Provence, Paris.[1] Unlike his earlier store at the same location and nearby at 19 rue Chauchat that specialised in Japonisme and imports from Asia, the gallery marked Bing's focus exclusively on modern art.[1][2] The original exhibition featured windows designed by Nabi artists, including Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and made by Louis Comfort Tiffany.[2] The fame of his gallery was increased at the 1900 Exposition Universelle, where he presented co-ordinated—in design and colour—installations of modern furniture, tapestries and objets d'art.[2] These fully-realised decorative displays became strongly associated with an art movement that was spreading across Europe, and to which his gallery subsequently provided a name: Art Nouveau.[2]
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- ^ a b Martin Eidelberg and Suzanne Henrion-Giele, "Horta and Bing: An Unwritten Episode of L'Art Nouveau," The Burlington Magazine, vol. 119, Special Issue Devoted to European Art Since 1890 (Nov., 1977), pp. 747-752.
- ^ a b c d Alastair Duncan, Art Nouveau, World of Art. New York: Thames and Hudson (1994), 15–16; 25–27. ISBN 0500202737
