Arts Nouveau Furniture

This Art Nouveau mantle is hand carved in butternut with a wide range of exotic woods and veneers in the inlay and marquetry.

Arts nouveau furniture. The art nouveau influence is evident in the design of Edwardian furniture. Louis Majorelle - Tabl Desk Aux pins. FURNITURE HISTORY _____ PART III ART NOUVEAU TO POST MODERN 2.

Art Nouveau furniture really emphasized the art aspect with elegant linear contours and fine finishes. This style was included in architecture furnishings paintings jewelry etc. This can be contrasted with modern minimialist design with its mantra of form follows function whereby practical materials such as plastic concrete and steel are used.

Influenced by Rococo style and the Arts and Crafts movement. Furniture and art in general began trending toward seamless arches and elegantly ballooned chair backs in the 1880s. These pieces were not cheap to make either.

From the 1880s until World War I the decorative style of Art Nouveau influenced all aspects of artistic production including graphic design furniture consumer products and architecture. Literally meaning new art art nouveau began in Vienna where it quickly gained popularity and swept across the rest of Europe including Belgium France Spain and GermanyPieces combining the spare elegance of Japanese décor with Gothic extravagance became highly sought. Unlike furniture made by the British Arts and Crafts movement from which it emerged in stylistic respects most Art Nouveau furniture was produced in factories by normal manufacturing techniques which led to tensions with Arts and Crafts figures in England who criticized.

But Art Nouveau furniture was a conscious step away from the craft tradition. One could see this particular design in furniture art architecture decorative arts etc. The aesthetic that favored sinuous natural forms and dense decoration went by many names across Europe and North America such as the Glasgow Style in Scotland and Stile Liberty after the London firm in.

Furniture created in the Art Nouveau style was prominent from the late 19th century to the advent of the First World War. Suddenly a desk escaped its traditional rectilinear constraints and received new dynamic curves. The large display cases in the first room present different aspects of the research conducted by Art Nouveau artists.