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What is Art Nouveau StoreFront, Interesting Facade Designs

Art Nouveau is about architecture and design.

Regia Marinho
3 min readAug 30, 2022

Art Nouveau got its inspiration from nature. The Bauhaus got its inspiration from engineering. — P. J. O’Rourke.

Art Nouveau is an international style of art, architecture, and applied art, mainly decorative arts.

Storefront

It is the facade or entryway of a retail store located on the ground floor or street level of a commercial building, showing one or more display windows.

The Mars Hat Shop on the Nieuwendijk. Amsterdam. Painting.

Hat shop, painting by Isaac Israëls. 1895.

Hat shop, painted by Isaac Israëls c. 1895. Photo:

The storefront's function is to attract visual attention to a business and its merchandise.

Art Nouveau storefronts designs.

These are Art Nouveau designs of storefronts from 1903 by French architect Maxime Roisin (1871–1960), Paris.

Art Nouveau designs of storefronts 1903 by French architect Maxime Roisin (1871–1960), Paris. ArtNouveauDeco

Art Nouveau is characterized by its use of a long, sinuous, organic line and was employed most often in architecture, jewelry and glass design, interior design, and illustration.

Douai, France (FR)

Art Nouveau Storefront. Douai, France (FR).

Art Nouveau Storefront Douai, France (FR). Photo: Wikipedia.

Art Nouveau was a style in the visual arts from around the early 1890s to the First World War.

Bruxelles, Belgium

Former Chemiserie Niguet storefront on the Rue Royale/Koningsstraat by Hankar (1896).

Former Chemiserie Niguet storefront on the Rue Royale/Koningsstraat by Hankar (1896). Photo: Wikipedia.

Former Chemiserie Niguet storefront on the Rue Royale/Koningsstraat by Hankar (1896).

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