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Art Deco and Art Nouveau
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Design Styles from c. 1880 to c.1935
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 Mackintosh & Kate Cranson
Kate Cranston was Charles Rennie Mackintosh's most generous and consistent patron. During their twenty-year partnership, Mackintosh created some of his most memorable interiors for her. Between 1897 and 1917 he designed or restyled rooms in all four of her Glasgow tea room establishments. Mack ...
- Antoni Gaudi (1852 -1926)
Gaudi's work is admired by architects around the World as being one of the most unique and distinctive architectural styles. His work has greatly influenced the face of Barcelona Architecture and you will see Gaudi's work all over the city. The son of a coppersmith, Antoni Gaudi was born in Reu ...
- The Rise of Vintage Poster
In the world of antiques, a particular area of interest — a collecting field if you like — will often tick over quietly for a couple of decades or more and then take off, gradually expanding its appeal beyond hard-core aficionados to draw many more new and enthusiastic collect ...
- Rene Lalique 1860 - 1945
Rene Lalique was born 1860, and died 1945. After his first career as a jeweller and being crowned the greatest art nouveau jeweller, at the 1900 Paris exhibition, Rene Lalique went on to become the greatest art deco glass maker. His earliest pieces of glass date from 1910 and even before, but h ...
- Art Nouveau in Brussels
Brussels was also at the center of the development of Art Nouveau: many of its earliest and most important creations were either made or exhibited in the city. At this time Brussels enjoyed a new prosperity from the wealth it had gained during the Industrial Revolution and Belgium's colonial e ...
- Art Nouveau in Glasgow
Although Art Nouveau was not generally embraced in England, the style developed in exciting new directions in the Scottish city of Glasgow. Elements of vigorous industrialism, modernity, and ethnic pride all played their part in the particular strain of Art Nouveau that emerged there. The work ...
- Art Nouveau in Vienna
Art Nouveau in Vienna was known as the Secession style after seminal Viennese artist Gustav Klimt led the city's progressive artists and designers into forming the Vienna Secession group in 1897. Members of the group broke free from the conventions and constraints of existing Viennese art esta ...
- Art Nouveau in Munich
Jugendstil was the name given to Art Nouveau in Germany. The term came from the title of the Munich periodical Die Jugend (The Youth), established in 1896. In Munich, as elsewhere, Art Nouveau was a complex style that found expression in a number of different approaches. Otto Eckmann, one of t ...
- Art Nouveau in Turin
In Italy, Art Nouveau was known as stile floreale, a name derived from the curving, floral designs favored by the artists and designers there, or stile Liberty, after the famous store in London, which sold the work of modern designers. Turin was a leader in Italy's economic growth at that tim ...
- Art Nouveau in New York
In the Art Nouveau period, New York became one of the world's great economic and cultural centers. The patronage of an outstanding generation of industrialists and financiers led to the creation of public museums, libraries, and grand private mansions. In this environment of confidence and wea ...
- Art Nouveau in Chicago
After the Chicago fire of 1871, architects and structural engineers flocked there. As they rebuilt the city's streets and structures, they developed a new form of architecture that was appropriate for the modern age. Among the principal architects working in Chicago was Louis Sullivan, one of ...
- Art Nouveau in Paris
Paris was the most important artistic center in Europe at this time, and many key developments in the formation of Art Nouveau took place there. From the mid-1890s, works by emerging young designers were exhibited at Bing's gallery L'Art Nouveau. And the city hosted the World's Fair of 1900, w ...
- Art Nouveau and the City
Despite its emphasis on nature, Art Nouveau was predominantly an urban style, created to decorate the streets and interiors of modern industrial cities, which had expanded rapidly during the last third of the nineteenth century. The cities represented in the exhibition demonstrate the internati ...
- What to Invest in Art Nouveau Period
What to invest in ceramics by Susie Cooper and Clarice Cliff original art deco rugs original posters featuring Bugatti cars etc Where to see it Hoover factory, Middlesex The Savoy, London Burgh Island Hotel, Bigbury-on-Sea, Devon Eltham Palace, London Miami Beach, Florida
- Art Nouveau Investment
What to invest in Due to mass production, many art nouveau items are not valuable although still highly desirable. However, if the pieces is by a known designer, the price soars. Original Tiffany lamps - have a marked pad on the shade. Emile Galle glassware - usually have a cameo or signatur ...
- Art nouveau (c.1880 to 1910)
Art nouveau could be said to be the first 20th century modern style. It was the first style to stop looking backwards in history for ideas, taking inspiration instead from what it saw around it, in particular the natural world. When art nouveau was showcased first in Paris and then in Lon ...
- Art deco (c.1908 to 1935)
Art deco began in Europe, particularly Paris, in the early years of the 20th century, but didn't really take hold until after World War I. It reigned until the outbreak of World War II. It was not just for the elite. By the 1930s, mass production meant that everyone could live in the ...
- Vintage Art Deco Multi Fuel Stove Made By Dru-Jaarsma Of Holland.
Antique art deco Raymond Loewy style multi fuel stove,made by Dru-Jaarsma of Holland a stunning cast iron stove in burnished metal finish. Classic Odeon style. Traditional mica in the doors and cast iron base.
- Art Deco in Victoria and Albert Museum
Related Material in the Victoria and Albert Museum The Prints & Drawings Study Room Works, such as prints, designs, posters, advertisement and trade cards and photographs, can be seen at the . Holdings of Art Deco material include posters by such artists as Edward McKnight Kauffer, Paul Colin a ...
- What is 'Art Deco'?
The term 'Art Deco' was coined in 1966, following a retrospective exhibition entitled 'Les Années '25', held at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. This commemorated the 1925 Paris 'Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes'. Originall ...
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