"The Viennese have adopted the decorative zigzag with alarming enthusiasm."
Andre Hallys on art nouveau, 1900, (quoted in Great Exhibitions by Jonathan Meyer.) Part of a fabulous rant. Also displays uncompromising loathing for all things Belgian. What such a man might have done with a blog. Alas, born a century too early. Oh, 1900 Paris World Fair, why must you be so strangely difficult to research?
Andre Hallys on art nouveau, 1900, (quoted in Great Exhibitions by Jonathan Meyer.) Part of a fabulous rant. Also displays uncompromising loathing for all things Belgian. What such a man might have done with a blog. Alas, born a century too early. Oh, 1900 Paris World Fair, why must you be so strangely difficult to research?