icepixie has an awesome icon remarking on some of the furniture and interior decor on the station, which I'd never noticed until I saw the icon, but now keep noticing everywhere.

Heh. I only noticed it because of the chairs in the council chambers--they're exact reproductions of one of the classic Charles Rennie Mackintosh chairs, which I've thought were cool for some years now. (Amusingly, my friends and I found two in a Starbucks when we were in Glasgow. Of course, I think pretty much every building in that town had something either by or inspired by Mackintosh in it...) A lot of the station has that Nouveau look to it, especially the light sources and walls. I hadn't really thought about it as a Minbari design element until you mentioned it a few weeks ago, but now I totally see the influence on their crests and ships. Though Minbar itself seems a bit more Deco than Nouveau to me--things are a bit more streamlined there, especially in the stained glass and building exteriors. (This may well be a function of CGI being in its infancy rather than a particular design choice...and Nouveau and Deco are so close together that it's hard to tell lots of pieces apart anyway.)