Ornament is the essence of Art Nouveau.
Today, Art Nouveau is again attracting artists, designer.
A fashionable home was a garden of graphic florals, petals, leaves, and stems.
Hundreds of thousands of carefully wrought designs embellished books, bookplates, furniture, and appliances.
Throughout their two decades of dominance, Art Nouveau artists concentrated on the ornamental and decorative potential of the flowing line in painting, printing, wallpaper, and all other fine and applied arts.
Ornament is the essence of Art Nouveau