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The Archive

Twenty objects, 1889–1930. Every claim checkable against the location given; every label lit by its own algorithm one floor down.

01

Édicule, Porte Dauphine Métro entrance

Hector Guimard · metal · 1900 · Paris
 02

Castel Béranger

Hector Guimard · metal · 1895–1898 · Paris
 03

Gismonda

Alphonse Mucha · paper · 1894 · Paris
 04

JOB

Alphonse Mucha · paper · 1896 · Paris
 05

Dragonfly table lamp

Louis Comfort Tiffany · glass · c. 1903–1906 · New York
 06

Autumn Landscape window

Louis Comfort Tiffany · glass · c. 1923–1924 · New York
 07

Staircase hall of the Hôtel Tassel

Victor Horta · glass · 1892–1893 · Brussels
 08

Maison et Atelier Horta (Horta Museum)

Victor Horta · metal · 1898–1901 · Brussels
 09

The Kiss (Der Kuss)

Gustav Klimt · metal · 1907–1908 · Vienna
 10

Stoclet Frieze

Gustav Klimt · glass · c. 1905–1911 · Brussels
 11

La Main aux algues et aux coquillages (Hand with seaweed and shells)

Émile Gallé · glass · c. 1889–1904 · Nancy
 12

Bed ‘Aube et Crépuscule’ (Dawn and Twilight)

Émile Gallé · glass · 1904 · Nancy
 13

Casa Batlló

Antoni Gaudí · metal · 1904–1906 · Barcelona
 14

Nativity Façade of the Sagrada Família

Antoni Gaudí · glass · 1893–1930 · Barcelona
 15

Corsage ornament 'Dragonfly Woman'

René Lalique · jewellery · 1897–1898 · Lisbon
 16

Cattleya orchid hair ornament

René Lalique · wood · c. 1903–1904 · Lisbon
 17

Hill House

Charles Rennie Mackintosh · architecture · 1902–1904 · Helensburgh
 18

Willow Tearooms

Charles Rennie Mackintosh · glass · 1903 · Glasgow
 19

Schlesinger & Mayer department store (Carson Pirie Scott Building)

Louis Sullivan · metal · 1899–1904 · Chicago
 20

Bayard-Condict Building

Louis Sullivan · metal · 1897–1899 · New York