Maison de l'Art Nouveau

You are walking toward the site of a gallery that changed the history of modern design. In December 1895, an art dealer named Siegfried Bing opened the Maison de l Art Nouveau on the Rue de Provence. While Bing was already a well-known merchant of Japanese art, this new space abandoned the traditional practice of selling isolated objects. Instead, he commissioned artists to create entire room interiors that served as cohesive, immersive environments.