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  • Then there is the ball's home, the town's art-nouveau Reduta Theater and Concert Hall, built in 1902, perhaps the only building in the region stylish enough to host such a lavish event.

    Small Slovak Town Is Belle of the Ball Leos Rousek 2012

  • The metro's distinctive art-nouveau style is unmistakable and the plant like green wrought iron entrances topped with the orange orbs and Metropolitan signage designed by Hector Guimard which sprout up all over the city lead one down to the gleaming white tiled platforms to be whisked away all over the city.

    UNDERGROUND ART: After Hours In The Paris Metro On Sleep City sleepycity 2010

  • He chose one of the art-nouveau chairs opposite her desk, leaned back in it, stretched out his arms and waited.

    Venom Joan Brady 2010

  • The metro's distinctive art-nouveau style is unmistakable and the plant like green wrought iron entrances topped with the orange orbs and Metropolitan signage designed by Hector Guimard which sprout up all over the city lead one down to the gleaming white tiled platforms to be whisked away all over the city.

    UNDERGROUND ART: After Hours In The Paris Metro On Sleep City sleepycity 2010

  • Between 1910-1930, Antoni Gaudí's protégé, César Martinell, designed 40 wine cooperatives in the "modernista" or art-nouveau style in Penedés, a Denominación de Origen south of Barcelona.

    Bold Bodegas: Top Architects Change the Face of Spanish Wine 2008

  • I think a lot of people don't realise that "What's Become Of The Baby" was a very beautiful, art-nouveau kind of thing.

    What's Become Of The Baby Robert Hunter 2008

  • I think a lot of people don't realise that "What's Become Of The Baby" was a very beautiful, art-nouveau kind of thing.

    What's Become Of The Baby Robert Hunter 2008

  • Henry had bought Veronica art-nouveau earrings and bracelet at an ill-attended Sotheby's auction.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Henry had bought Veronica art-nouveau earrings and bracelet at an ill-attended Sotheby's auction.

    Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine 2003

  • Only his statue, an ornamental metal reproduction of an art-nouveau Phaeton mascot, could remain the same.

    Omnibus Lackey, Mercedes 1993

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