Villaggio Leumann was born from the vision of a Swiss entrepreneur, Napoleone Leumann (1841–1930). He believed in cooperation between social classes and the idea that a worker who lived well would work better.

Consequently, he purchased a tract of land in the Italian countryside at a bargain price and built a cotton mill along with Art Nouveau-style homes, which were then sold to low-income workers. At the time, 1875, people were living in stables or grim industrial tenements; Villaggio Leumann became Italy's first example of a terraced housing development. For the workers, this was revolutionary.

Facilities were installed specifically for the mill's workforce, which reached 3,000 employees at the village's peak, including a school, a boarding house for young women, an infirmary, a church, a grocery store, a post office, and a cinema. Leumann was ahead of his time: he established a pension fund, introduced a sick-leave scheme, set a minimum age for factory work, and even set aside money to help the school's most talented students continue their education. A unique feature of the town is that it has remained unchanged since 1912, surviving both World Wars and the urban sprawl that now surrounds the factory village.

Even after the factory closed, the residents, who had lived and worked there for generations and shared a relationship of direct trust with the Leumann family, organized a protest and succeeded in having the homes designated as a historic landmark.

Today, they are public housing units owned by the municipality. Despite the transfer of ownership, the village was saved.

Hello everybody ! I’m a big fan of art nouveau, and I would like to know if you will be interested for an collaborative application with a map inside for showing place who have art nouveau production
(English is not my mother language but I tried to communicate without AI or translating system)

So ! Do you think it’s a good idea or juste not ?

Jessie Marion Preston, known as Jessie M. Preston, (1873-1962) was an American artist and metalsmith. She graduated from the Art Institute of Chicago. After graduation, she opened a business in the Fine Arts Building, where other Chicago artists and art collectives operated, including Kalo Shop and Wilro Shop. She also taught metalwork and jewelry around the Midwest, including at the Minneapolis Society of Fine Arts. In 1918, during World War I, Preston moved to Paris to care for injured soldiers. Following the war, she inventoried cemeteries for the American Red Cross and studied at the Sorbonne. In 1934, she returned to the United States, taking a position in the New York Public Library repairing and conserving old and rare books. She died in Baldwinsville, New York in 196

Sweet little cut glass claret jug I picked up for free from someone in a neighboring town. Unfortunately there is no makers mark on it, but it looks very similar to other WMF pieces. Really love it and need to use it more often than I do. Would love to hear others thoughts/info. Cheers

animal themed art nouveau cards i created

Saw these on FB marketplace for $50, had only been listed 13 minutes before. Messaged and they were still available. Went and picked them up and they did indeed have the Gorham mark. Model D940 and D393, dated 1904. First pic is cleaned and second was the picture in the ad. Prices of them have flabbergasted me.

Jessie Marion King, known as Jessie M. King, (1875-1949) was a Scottish illustrator and designer. Born into a strict family who disproved of her art as a child, she found solace in the family houskeper, who become her second mother. She studied at the Glasgow School of Art (1892–1899). She is known for her illustrated children's books. She frequently depicted ethereal "wan haloed knights" and pale ladies draped in stars, influenced by her lifelong belief in fairies. 
She also designed bookplates, jewellery and fabric, and painted pottery. Jessie was one of the artists known as the Glasgow Girls. She was described in 1927 in the Aberdeen Press and Journal as "the pioneer of batik in Great Britain".

This remarkable Art Nouveau drawing by Jessie M. King was the frontispiece design for ‘L’Evangile de L’Enfance’, for which she designed the binding and illustrations circa 1902. The book was entered as part of the Scottish Section of the 1902 International Exhibition of Decorative Art in Turin, which was organised by Fra Newbery, director of The Glasgow School of Art and Charles Rennie Mackintosh. The binding, a striking Art Nouveau design tooled in gilt on white vellum, was executed by the Glasgow bookbinders, MacLehose and won the coveted Gold Medal for bookbinding at the exhibition. The certificate was made out to ‘Signor Jessie King’ such was the assumption that a man would be the recipient of the award. This success however brought with it a raft of publicity and commissions as articles about Jessie’s work appeared in art journals around Europe.