Swedish Art Nouveau

Art Nouveau was certainly an international movement, but in Sweden it took on a very personal manifestation. It was a fusion of the sensual beauty and wild magic of nature with the stirrings of national identity. In Swedish Art Nouveau, or National Romanticism, which flourished between the late 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century, both applied arts and architecture shared these characteristics, with flowing lines being a distinctive feature.

One thing that set Swedish Art Nouveau apart from the rest of the continent was that it drew much of its inspiration from Nordic flora...