After a vast restoration project, Casa Darvas-La Roche has recovered its former beauty and reopened its doors in August 2020 as the first Art Nouveau Museum in Oradea. The villa was built between 1909 and 1912 by brothers László and József Vágó in the Viennese Secession style.

As a sub-section of the Oradea Museum, the Art Nouveau Museum offers exhibitions dedicated to the "Belle Époque" interiors of Oradea, video projections, as well as artists' workshops, conference rooms and space for events. The house's garden is an oasis of calm in the heart of the city and an intimate space, suitable for cultural or private events.

The Horta Museum shares its 3D film online about the hypothesis behind reconstructing the most important spaces and elements of the Maison du Peuple (1899), which was designed by the architect Victor Horta and demolished in 1965 despite an international protest campaign.

The result of a scientific partnership that originated five years ago between the Horta Museum and the Alice laboratory of the La Cambre Horta Faculty of Architecture, the 3D video was presented in Brussels on 18 December 2019 as part of an event that included the participation of the main authors of this research study.

3D video of the virtual reconstruction: https://vimeo.com/409170961#t=5674s

Video of the opening conference (in French and Dutch): http://www.hortamuseum.be/en/hortathome

If you wish to learn more about the history of this building, we suggest the article "La Maison du Peuple: Art Nouveau and Socialism" by the architect Jos Vandenbreeden, which was published in issue 31 of our magazine coupDefouet (available in Catalan and English) at this link: http://www.artnouveau.eu/upload/magazine_pdf/Cdf_31_Memoria.pdf

Here is a chance to visit the travelling exhibition "Blue: The Colour of Art Nouveau" by watching the video that was shot during its run in the city of Sevilla between 2 May and 25 August 2019 (in Spanish) https://youtu.be/eOB938f9jCE

Discover the history of the Tiffany Chapel and its restoration in the video on show at the Morse Museum's website (in English) https://youtu.be/YB1j5TImPbA

Toulouse Art Nouveau. Période 1890 - 1920 ("Toulouse Art Nouveau: 1890-1920 Period") is a guide that helps you to discover the city's Art Nouveau treasures and outline the contours of a specific Toulouse style, combining regionalism and southern art, a troubadour, Art Nouveau, bourgeois style marked by a great variety of ornamentation: stained glass, wrought iron, volutes and mosaics. Seventy-three buildings, houses and various premises are all presented in detail, such as the Au Capitole department store (Primark), Musee George Labit or Cervantes Institute, inviting you to stroll through Proustian times.

The Toulouse architects of the period were influenced by Haussmann's newly opened streets (Alsace Lorraine, Metz and Ozenne) and remained mostly faithful to 19th-century bourgeois architecture.FURNÉMONT, Geneviève, 2019 / Toulouse Art Nouveau. Période 1890 - 1920

ÉDITIONS TORREFORT, TOULOUSE
120 pp., 23.5 x 22.2 cm, 230 colour and black-and-white illustrations. Published in French
Available in paperback / 29.90 euros
For more information: terrefort@wanadoo.fr