My Ukrainian contacts informed me about a new collection of #artnouveau inspired chocolates - collection is dedicated to the outstanding architect and builder Ivan Levinsky :-)
#Baturday :
Maurice Pillard Verneuil (French, 1869–1942)
Chauves-souris et pavots, tenture (#Bats and poppies, hanging)
From Plate 33 of L'animal dans la Décoration, 1897 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chauves_souris_et_pavots_tenture_papillons_et_campanules_papier_peint_-_L%27animal_dans_la_decoration_(1897)_by_M._P._Verneuil_(New_York_Public_Library,_enhanced_by_Rawpixel)_506%27790171_o.jpg #ArtNouveau
It's great to see Clarke and Bell's Art Nouveau style saloon bar on Dumbarton Road in Partick finally getting a decent make-over. Built for Philip MacSorley (who also owned MacSorley's on Jamaica Street) in 1900 on the site of an older pub called the Clan Vaults, it's previously been known as The Roost, Wall Street, The Exchequer, The Fitter and Firkin, The Clinic and Boho.
An Art Nouveau interpretation of the Glasgow Coat of Arms by Albert Hodge on the Anderston branch of the Glasgow Savings Bank designed by Salmon and Gillespie, and built in 1899.
Dolores is an utterly charming and beautiful soul and I feel very lucky that I got to spend so much time in her company for this article – the first ever about her in the English language, I believe!
A beautifully sculpted Celtic Cross, with an Art Nouveau feel to it, on the grave of Alexander McCutcheon, a former treasurer for the City of Glasgow who died in 1914 and who is buried in the city's Necropolis.
New art thread for 2024 starts here! This is a mostly daily thread with a different artist featured in each post, primarily modern and contemporary stuff since that's my thing.
Floral prints from "Plants and Their Ornamental Applications," produced under the supervision of French Art Nouveau poster artist Eugene Grasset, 1896, employing the "pochoir" process which used watercolors applied by stencil.
Artists: E. Hervegh, G.A. Bourgeot, Marcelle Gaudin, Anna Martin