Weekend Reflection: Pop Art nouveau

I am really not sure that Art Nouveau and Pop Art can ever work well together, but there is something about this chair in Altrincham's Oxford Road that I quite like. It made me stop and I ended up with a decent reflection for Weekend Reflections anyway...

Mancunian Wave reader Chris points out that the frame probably isn't Art Nnoveau style - mea culpa.
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Are you really sure this is an Art Nouveau armchair?

I like Art Nouveau and this is offensive to that style. Art Nouveau is restrained and elegant. 

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There are also specific carved motifs typical of Art Nouveau and this chairs' excessively florid carving lacks any of those.

I would describe it either as 

- Baroque or

- Roccoco

best regards

Chris