My niece, a freshman art major is going through an Art Nouveau phase and asked for an Alphonse Mucha poster for Christmas. I thought she might like this calendar even better, as it has 12 of Mucha's languishing portraits of ladies, most of them advertising such items as Sarah Bernhardt plays, champagne, and beer.
Each month displays a separate 11.6" x 11.6" color picture above a calendar grid. Opened up on a wall, the calendar is roughly 1 foot wide and 2 feet long.
Alphonse Mucha was born in 1860 in Ivancice, Moravia, which is near the city of Brno in the modern Czech Republic, but spent his creative years in Paris just as Art Nouveau was embracing Europe's new industrial aesthetic. It featured naturalistic but stylized forms, often combined with more geometric shapes as in the paintings of Alphonse Mucha or Gustav Klimt. The movement also produced useful or wearable art as evidenced by Lalique jewelry or Tiffany lamps. Mucha himself designed advertising posters and stage sets, so I'm sure he would approve of this useful and beautiful presentation of his art.