De Stijl: Abstracting Modernism Through Pure Form and Color
Matt Graham
Estimated Read Time: 6 mins | June 9, 2025
How a radical Dutch movement defined the abstract language of modernist design worldwide.
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Matt Graham
Matt Graham
Early Modernism in America: Sullivan, Wright, and the Arrival of the International Style
Matt Graham
Estimated Read Time: 8 mins | June 9, 2025
From eclectic historicism to the International Style—how American visionaries and émigré mod...
The Rise of the Bungalow: America’s Craftsman-Driven Design Icon
Matt Graham
Estimated Read Time: 5 mins | June 8, 2025
How the humble bungalow came to define American domestic architecture—blending Arts and Craf...
Early Modernism in France: Perret, Mallet-Stevens, and Chareau
Matt Graham
Estimated Read Time: 7 mins | June 8, 2025
Three visionary architects—Auguste Perret, Robert Mallet-Stevens, and Pierre Chareau—pushed ...
Antoni Gaudí and Art Nouveau in Spain
Matt Graham
Estimated Read Time: 6 mins | May June 8, 2025
Gaudí’s Barcelona: Where Art Nouveau Becomes Sculptural, Imaginative, and Utterly Unique...
Jugendstil: Germany’s Expression of Art Nouveau
Matt Graham
Estimated Read Time: 5 mins | June 7, 2025
Germany’s and Scandinavia’s turn-of-the-century Art Nouveau—distinguished by nature-inspired...
Scandinavian Design: From Jugendstil and National Romanticism to Humanistic Modernism
Matt Graham
Estimated Read Time: 7 mins | June 6, 2025
How the Nordic blend of tradition, craft, and material sensitivity reshaped modern design wor...
The Vienna Secession: Austria’s Geometric Path to Modernism
Matt Graham
Estimated Read Time: 6 mins | June 6, 2025
Distinct from botanical Art Nouveau, the Vienna Secession fused geometric rigor, clarity, an...
The Craftsman Movement: America’s Answer to Arts and Crafts
Matt Graham
Estimated Read Time: 8 mins | June 5, 2025
How Gustav Stickley, Greene & Greene, and a new American spirit of simplicity reshaped a...