![]() All descriptions are based on the opinion of The Benefit Shop Foundation Inc. All items offered at auction are sold as is, where is, no refunds, no returns and without recourse. ![]() In bidding with The Benefit Shop Foundation Inc you are agreeing to be bound by the following terms:ġ. ![]() The below Terms and Conditions of Auction constitute the entire agreement with the successful bidder relative to the property purchased at auction. There are ways to tastefully integrate a touch of Art Nouveau into even the most modern interior - browse an extraordinary collection of original antique Art Nouveau furniture on 1stDibs, which includes decorative objects, seating, tables, garden elements and more.The property offered for sale by The Benefit Shop Foundation Inc, is donated to our 501(c)(3) or taken on consignment. But as the designs on 1stDibs demonstrate, Art Nouveau retains its power to fascinate and seduce. The sensuous, languorous style fell out of favor early in the 20th century, deemed perhaps too light and insubstantial for European tastes in the aftermath of World War I. Like a mayfly, Art Nouveau was short-lived. A favorite Art Nouveau jewelry motif was insects (think of Tiffany, in his famed Dragonflies glass lampshade). Jewelry design was revolutionized, as settings, for the first time, were emphasized as much as, or more than, gemstones. Bold vases, bowls and lighting designs in acid-etched and marquetry cameo glass by Émile Gallé and the Daum Freres appeared in France, while in New York the glass workshop-cum-laboratory of Louis Comfort Tiffany - the core of what eventually became a multimedia decorative-arts manufactory called Tiffany Studios - brought out buoyant pieces in opalescent favrile glass. Ceramists such as Ernest Chaplet and Edmond Lachenal created new forms covered in novel and rediscovered glazes that produced thick, foam-like finishes. The Art Nouveau movement was known as Jugendstil ("Youth Style") in Germany, and in Austria the designers of the Vienna Secession group - notably Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich - produced a relatively austere iteration of the Art Nouveau style, which mixed curving and geometric elements.Īrt Nouveau revitalized all of the applied arts. Meanwhile in France, Hector Guimard - whose iconic 1896 entry arches for the Paris Metro are still in use - and Louis Majorelle produced chairs, desks, bed frames and cabinets with sweeping lines and rich veneers. In Scotland, the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh developed a singular, restrained look based on scale rather than ornament a style best known from his narrow chairs with exceedingly tall backs, designed for Glasgow tea rooms. While all Art Nouveau designs share common formal elements, different countries and regions produced their own variants. The style quickly reached a wide audience in Europe via advertising posters, book covers, illustrations and other work by such artists as Aubrey Beardsley, Henri Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha. ![]() The visual vocabulary of Art Nouveau was particularly influenced by the soft colors and abstract images of nature seen in Japanese art prints, which arrived in large numbers in the West after open trade was forced upon Japan in the 1860s. The signature motif is the "whiplash" curve - a deep, narrow, dynamic parabola that appears as an element in everything from chair arms to cabinetry and mirror frames. In its sinuous lines and flamboyant curves inspired by the natural world, Art Nouveau furniture, jewelry and graphic design reflected a desire for freedom from the stuffy social and artistic strictures of the Victorian era.Īrt Nouveau can be easily identified by its lush, flowing forms suggested by flowers and plants, as well as the lissome tendrils of sea life. Art Nouveau was a modernizing movement in the decorative arts that developed in France and Britain in the early 1880s and quickly became a dominant aesthetic style in Western Europe and the United States.
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