Century Guild was founded in 1999 by Thomas Negovan and Stuart Tomc. The pair met years earlier as colleagues in an art gallery and bonded over a deeply shared appreciation for Art Nouveau and Symbolism.
Exhibiting at only select public events, brokering to museum collections, and working with a private client base, Century Guild has kept a deliberately low profile for the last decade in order to focus on the building of an impressive inventory of important Art Nouveau and Symbolist artifacts, with a focus on ceramics, porcelain, antique posters, and lithographs.
Our antique inventory specializes in Art Nouveau and Symbolist works from Germany, Austria, France and Italy 1880-1920, and includes the lithography of significant artists such as Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Walter Schnackenberg, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Ludwig Hohlwein. We offer museum quality examples of Art Nouveau, Amphora and Massier pottery, important Symbolist Art lithographs, and artifacts from the golden eras of Silent Film and Munich and Berlin Cabaret.
- EXHIBITIONS
For many years, Century Guild has been a staple at the Artropolis event held every Spring at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago; audiences form when Thomas and Stuart begin to share the marvelous stories surrounding each of the relics in the Century Guild collection. From sinister espionage during the Middle Ages through the volatile politics of the Industrial Revolution, from the blossoming of Art Nouveau through the climate of excess at the end of the First World War, the finest objets d’art of the era tell tales of frenetic passion and macabre debaucheries if we know how to listen.
A desire to provide educational experiences for as many people as possible has led Century Guild to such non-traditional venues as the San Diego Comic-Con. Century Guild creates an entire pavilion of Art Nouveau and Symbolist artifacts at the annual San Diego event and their presentation is overwhelmingly embraced by the 150,000 visitors, most importantly a young generation of burgeoning Art Nouveau fans.
- CONTEMPORARY
While Century Guild deals primarily in relics of the past, we also exhibit a select few contemporary artists who with their exceptional work have built a rare conduit from the 19th century to the present. Contemporary artists exhibited include:
Exhibiting at only select public events, brokering to museum collections, and working with a private client base, Century Guild has kept a deliberately low profile for the last decade in order to focus on the building of an impressive inventory of important Art Nouveau and Symbolist artifacts, with a focus on ceramics, porcelain, antique posters, and lithographs.
Our antique inventory specializes in Art Nouveau and Symbolist works from Germany, Austria, France and Italy 1880-1920, and includes the lithography of significant artists such as Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Walter Schnackenberg, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Ludwig Hohlwein. We offer museum quality examples of Art Nouveau, Amphora and Massier pottery, important Symbolist Art lithographs, and artifacts from the golden eras of Silent Film and Munich and Berlin Cabaret.
- EXHIBITIONS
For many years, Century Guild has been a staple at the Artropolis event held every Spring at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago; audiences form when Thomas and Stuart begin to share the marvelous stories surrounding each of the relics in the Century Guild collection. From sinister espionage during the Middle Ages through the volatile politics of the Industrial Revolution, from the blossoming of Art Nouveau through the climate of excess at the end of the First World War, the finest objets d’art of the era tell tales of frenetic passion and macabre debaucheries if we know how to listen.
A desire to provide educational experiences for as many people as possible has led Century Guild to such non-traditional venues as the San Diego Comic-Con. Century Guild creates an entire pavilion of Art Nouveau and Symbolist artifacts at the annual San Diego event and their presentation is overwhelmingly embraced by the 150,000 visitors, most importantly a young generation of burgeoning Art Nouveau fans.
- CONTEMPORARY
While Century Guild deals primarily in relics of the past, we also exhibit a select few contemporary artists who with their exceptional work have built a rare conduit from the 19th century to the present. Contemporary artists exhibited include:
Jeremy A. Bastian (exclusive representation)
Steve Diet Goedde
Michael Hussar
Dean Karr
Malleus
Steve Diet Goedde
Michael Hussar
Dean Karr
Malleus
Chris Mars
Dave McKean
Gail Potocki (exclusive representation)
Austin Young
Dave McKean
Gail Potocki (exclusive representation)
Austin Young