The Art Nouveau (“new art”) movement of the early 20th century was a rebel of its time. Across Western Europe and the United States, artists, architects, and designers traded classical art forms for sinuous, asymmetrical lines and ornate motifs mirroring the bewildering shapes of the natural world. Its relative idiosyncrasy opened a liminal space for the play between mystery and material. 

The movement breathed the questions: What makes a mystery? Is it an omission or an addition of details? Why does the inexplicable taunt and tempt? “Mystique” swallows these questions down whole. Out of it emerges a sumptuous collection of timeless ephemera as dynamic as the art form that inspired it.