Any Art Nouveau buildings in London?

[TarahC]

Hi, This is not related to East Dulwich but I figured it was worth asking! I came across a beautiful Art Nouveau building in Chelsea but cannot seem to find any more information about Art Nouveau buildings in London at all. There are Art Deco London books but no Art Nouveau.

Does anyone know of any buildings I could go and see? It's a form of architecture that I'm really interested in.

Thanks!

[dukesdenver]

The Black Friar is Art Nouveau-ish:

Link

[martell1]

The Wolseley on Piccadilly

[lofty]

Hope this works. Copy and paste the link into google maps..not sure how to do it the way dukesdenver did.

If not type in 81 Old Brompton Road on google maps.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=51.493537,-0.168966&spn=0,359.991031&z=17&layer=c&cbll=51.493537,-0.168966&panoid=d7RgLHvFGX1TzCBcVL5dUQ&cbp=12,162.11513729826962,,0,-1.1363636363636391

[lofty]

Oh it did the link automatically.. sweet....you might need to refresh the page though once its loaded as you may get a black picture to start with.

[red devil]

Good examples few and far between. London never really fully embraced Johnny Foreigner's Art Nouveau architecture (try Glasgow for Mackintosh et al), preferring instead the machine like Art Deco style.

Try Whitechapel Gallery, same architect also did the Horniman Museum...

Whitechapel...

[PeckhamRose]

Tarah - where was the building in Chelsea that you first referred to?

Thanks!

[charliecharlie]

this V&A info site should do the trick

http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1157_art_deco/about/buildings/

[red devil]

chazzy, Art Deco is not the same as Art Nouveau, don't yer know...

[charliecharlie]

oh yes and have you ever been to Eltham Palace the home of the Courtuald family, it has a lovely garden... it's an interesting building too...

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server.php?show=nav.12744

http://www.artdecofairs.co.uk/elthampalacefair.html

[charliecharlie]

yes... I know the difference very well thank you, and I guess the V&A and the English Heritage know the difference too!

would you like to take another look at the information I posted????(!)

[red devil]

Yes I did first time and it makes no reference to any Art Nouveau buildings, as your link and the V&A page quite clearly state 'Art Deco buildings', Battersea Power Station that icon of Art Nouveau architecture, mmmm...

[bigbadwolf]

If you want art Deco/Nouveau go to the top of Taymount rise in forest hill and you'll be amazed. I honestly thought I'd bump into hercule Poirot.

[charliecharlie]

[quote name=chazzy' date=' Art Deco is not the same as Art Nouveau, don't yer know...

]

I stand totally and utterly corrected.. rushed and stressed at work and read one for the other...

and didn't I sound like a smug b*itch... just goes to show that too much work is not good for us!!!

sorry red devil

blimey... I've apologise twice in one day on the forum... better take more care:-S

[Xena Worried prince]

I am confused, what is the difference as I have been to Eltham Palace (stunning) but not sure of the two different schools of architecture here.

[red devil]

No probs Chazzy, take it easy...

[PinkyB]

Xena, they're very different styles indeed. Art Deco is all streamlined curves and simplicity, whereas Art Nouveau (a style that flourished at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, mostly in Europe) is a wonderful combination of elaborate decoration, flowing lines inspired by nature, and austere modern design.

Not that many examples in London, unfortunately. In Britain arts & crafts style (William Morris, etc) took hold more than art nouveau, and those artists were mostly interested in furniture and textiles and small design rather than buildings. The Black Friar pub opposite Blackfriars station is definitely the best example, but there's also the tiling in Harrods meat hall (seriously!) and the Fox & Anchor pub in Islington. For the best Art Nouveau architecture experience you should go to Vienna if you can, it's an amazing city. I went a few years ago and spent the whole time staring up in awe at all these incredible buildings. It's not even just major public buildings, it's in the shop signs and lifts in old apartment buildings and park benches and especially the metro stations by Otto Wagner, which are some of the most beautiful buildings I have ever seen. I hope to go back one day and see them properly, especially as my camera broke last time and none of the pics came out, grr.

List of most famous European Art Nouveau buildings with lovely pics:

http://www.greatbuildings.com/types/styles/art_nouveau.html

[snorky]

art noovow is flowery Mucha doodling, its roots in the artisany rose tinted view of a simpler life