"Nothing is ever reborn, but it never completely disappears either, everything that has ever been emerges in a new form."

"Nulla di Vecchio è mai rinato, ma neppure scompare mai completamente. E tutto ciò che è sempre stato emerge in una forma nuova!"


-Alvar Aalto-

Art Nouveau is an international movement and style of art, architecture and applied art—especially the decorative arts—that peaked in popularity at the turn of the 20th century (1890–1905). The name "Art Nouveau" is French for "new art". It is also known as Jugendstil, German for "youth style", named after the magazine Jugend, which promoted it, and in Italy, Stile Liberty from the department store in London, Liberty & Co., which popularised the style. A reaction to academic art of the 19th century, it is characterized by organic, especially floral and other plant-inspired motifs, as well as highly stylized, flowing curvilinear forms. Art Nouveau is an approach to design according to which artists should work on everything from architecture to furniture, making art part of everyday life.

Glass bottles, apparently objects that, after they lose contact with the liquid they contain, they lose their funtion, now they are having a new use in architecture. Glass bottles are old and used objects that have a new opportunity of being use.   

Ecological house done with tires, aluminium cans and glass bottles (tucson Arizona, USA): in this case it is example of old objects that are acquiring new meanings and new function. They are old objects that are also new.