Art Nouveau Quotes

“The wooden doors on the restrooms were art nouveau too: the hinges with nymphs, the hasps and mountings, as big as about six of those particleboard slabs that pass for doors. As if they'd been built for men of gigantic stature. In fact it was like the entire train station had been built for some race now long extinct. If any of those Titans actually turned up here, the local riffraff would no doubt turn tail and head for the hills and I myself wouldn't be far behind. But those consummate carpenters from the other end of the century left behind no holes in their work.”
― Jáchym Topol, Výlet k nádražní hale