While it is popularly appreciated that Art Nouveau in its various dialects was, at least partly, inspired and informed by the natural world, for all the floral world, and also popularly appreciated that the move to more objective, sober, less decorative positions, and dialects, throughout the first decades of the 20th century resulted in a rationalisation of the natural influences of Art Nouveau that tended to remove the direct natural/floral references — if keeping many of the forms such
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That the weather in April is unpleasantly fickle, rarely knows what it wants or how to express itself, makes April the perfect month to concentrate on indoor activities, such as visiting an architecture or design exhibition. Our recommendations for avoiding the weather, and thereby expanding your horizons, in April 2025 can be found in Dessau, Zürich, Hamburg, Tallinn and Bonn....... "Bauhaus Ecologies" at the Bauhaus Museum, Dessau, Germany The Bauhauses are often held as impulse-giving
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As Letitia Elizabeth Landon so very, very, nearly wrote in 1823, Of all the months that fill the year Give April's month to me, For the architecture and design museums are then so filled, With sweet variety! Our sweet variety in April's month of 2024 can be found in Dessau, Brussels, Rome, Paris and Dresden....... "The Gesture Speaks" at the Bauhaus Museum, Dessau, Germany For all that the Bauhauses were, without question, art and design and craft and architecture, they were also movement;
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