ART DECO ART NOUVEAU

ART DECO (1920-1940) Art Deco took its name, short for Arts Décoratifs, from the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes held in Paris in 1925. It emerged mainly in France and celebrated the dawn of the industrial age. The style adopted in Art Deco architecture was bold straight …

ART NOUVEAU (1880-1914) It means “new art” and embraced Europe’s new industrial aesthetic rather than challenged it. It featured naturalistic but stylised forms, often combined with shapes which were more geometric like parabolas, and semicircles. The movement used forms from the natural world that had not been used for long …

Art Nouveau is based on the agile, the fluid, on the movement provided by curves and asymmetry. Art Deco seems obsessed with geometric shapes, with straight lines and angles, with mass and symmetry as constant values. But there is more than that. Although they are two styles with very different characteristics, …

Fairy door handles.. GLASS BUTTONS Czechoslovákia 1920-1930 Dragonflies with their iridescent mother-of-pearl wings are very often found in Art Nouveau interiors. Found in a junkyard in the dessert, rescued and restored to its original glory. 1947 December 21, 1912 The first Christmas tree in Madison Square Park was a sixty-footer …

Victorian Courting Conversation Chair, Europe 19th Century. IRON WORK – PEACOCK GATE in the Four Seasons Budapest lobby’s Peacock Passage, 1904-1906, The Gresham Palace, Budapest, Hungary architects: Zsigmond Quitter and Josef Vago (Photo source: Pinterest; credit to original owner) Christmas tree made with jewelry from the late 19th and early …