NOUVEAU/

1895 ⟶ 2026

The salon
that computes
its own flowers

Art Nouveau dreamed of nature's mathematics rendered by machine. The machines arrived. NOUVEAU/ grows Guimard's iron, fires Tiffany's glass and turns Mucha's curves — live, in front of you, from seed to ornament.

Enter the archive Work the atelier

A museum that grows

Twenty masterworks of 1900, each with a living companion piece: the same mathematics the masters drew by hand, computed while you watch.

No. 01

Édicule, Porte Dauphine Métro entrance

Hector Guimard · 1900 · Paris No. 02

Castel Béranger

Hector Guimard · 1895–1898 · Paris No. 03

Gismonda

Alphonse Mucha · 1894 · Paris No. 04

JOB

Alphonse Mucha · 1896 · Paris No. 05

Dragonfly table lamp

Louis Comfort Tiffany · c. 1903–1906 · New York No. 06

Autumn Landscape window

Louis Comfort Tiffany · c. 1923–1924 · New York

All twenty objects

Ten masters, ten algorithms

1867–1942

Hector Guimard

architecture, cast iron, furniture 1860–1939

Alphonse Mucha

poster lithography, graphic design, decorative panneaux 1848–1933

Louis Comfort Tiffany

stained and leaded glass, lamps, mosaics, enamel 1861–1947

Victor Horta

architecture, ironwork, furniture 1862–1918

Gustav Klimt

painting, gold-ground decoration, mural frieze design 1846–1904

Émile Gallé

glass, ceramics, marquetry furniture 1852–1926

Antoni Gaudí

architecture, structural geometry, ceramics, ironwork 1860–1945

René Lalique

jewellery, enamels, glass 1868–1928

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

architecture, interior design, furniture, watercolour 1856–1924

Louis Sullivan

architecture, terra cotta and iron ornament