2. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION
HISTOTY
CHRACTERISTICS
WHAT ART NOUVEANU FURNITURE IS ABOUT ?
PPROCESS
AREAS INFLUENCED BY ART NOUVEAU
MATERIALS USED IN ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE
FAMOUS FURNITURE DESIGNERS
SINOPSIS OF ART NNOUVEAU FURNITURE
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3. In the beginning ,this movement didn't have a name untill it was coined and popularized by
seigfried bing 's maison de l'art nouveau ,an art gallery in paris .
*ART NOUVEAU flourished between 1890 to 1910 . Art nouveau combined with different
european styles .THIS furniture firstly ,came in european .
MEANING : style of decorative art, architecture, and design prominent in western
Europe and the USA from about 1890 until the First World War and characterized by
intricate linear designs and flowing curves based on natural forms.
THE idea behined art nouveau was to created a styles that broke aways from historical styles
and seach for original ideas .
Introduction
4. HISTORY
Art Nouveau furniture, which features curving lines and organic shapes, was a
result of ideas that merged nature, design, and craftsmanship.
Art Nouveau was a decorative style that became popular in Europe and the United
States between 1890 and 1910
The term art nouveau first appeared in the 1880s in the Belgian journal L’Art
Moderne
From the 1880s until the First World War, western Europe and the United States
witnessed the development of Art Nouveau
Taking inspiration from the unruly aspects of the natural world,
Art Nouveau influenced art and architecture especially in the applied arts, graphic
work, and illustration.
Art Nouveau furniture is identified by organic shapes and curved lines.
6. Combination in many different european styles
The diversity found in art nouveau is
particularly evident in furniture.
In essence,three development cam be made out:
1)natural forms designs in frame and belgium
2)geometric shape and pattern in austria .
3) the formal art nouveau,which developed in
germany .
ART NOUVEAU FRUNITURE
7. The natural form design in france and
belgium
Geometric shape and pattern in austria
the formal art nouveaus in germany.
Inspired by japanese art.
8. Art Nouveau furniture
Furniture created in the Art Nouveau style was prominent from the beginning of the 1890s to
the beginning of the First World War in 1914. It characteristically used forms based on nature,
such as vines, flowers and water lilies, and featured curving and undulating lines, sometimes
known as the whiplash line, both in the form and the decoration.
Belgium
Desk by Van de Velde (1898–1899) (Musée d'Orsay)
Stool by Paul Hankar (1898) Mahogany wardrobe by
Gustave Serrurier-Bovy (1899
Dressing table by Gustave
Serrurier-Bovy (1899)
9. France - Paris and the School of Nancy
Paris - Guimard, Gaillard and de Feure
ide chair by Hector
Guimard (1900) (Art
Institute of Chicago)
Bedroom furniture of the Hotel
Guimard by Hector Guimard
Chaise Lonngue by
Hector Guimard (c. 1903
Vitrine by Eugene
Gaillard (1899-1900)
, Hector Guimard created the first Art Nouveau apartment house in Paris, the
Castel Beranger, a curious mixture of Gothic revival and Art Nouveau elements. He
also began designing sets of furniture with the naturalistic curves and decoration
that were characteristic of the style.
10. Germany - the Jugendstil and the Deutscher Werkebund
In Germany, the furniture of early designers of the Jugendstil, or "Young Style", such as
Otto Eckmann displayed what was called the "floral" period of the Jugendstil. These
pieces had natural curves and motifs popular in French Art Nouveau
Chair by Bruno Paul (1900)
Chair by Peter Behrens (1902)
Dining room furniture
at Darmstadt Artist's
Colony by Peter
Behrens
Dresser by Richard
Riemerschmid (1902)
11. An important center for Art Nouveau furniture design and manufacture was in Nancy, in eastern
France, where Louis Majorelle had his studios and workshops, and where the Alliance des industries
d'art (later called the School of Nancy) had been founded in 1901. Both designers based on their
structure and ornamentation on forms taken from nature, including flowers and insects, particularly
the dragonfly, a popular motif in Art Nouveau design.
The Nancy School
cabinet of ash wood, oak and poplar,
with marquetry of colored woods and
sculpted bronze, by Emile Gallé
presented at the 1900 Paris Exposition
Bench by Émile Gallé, (1902)
The "Water Lily" bed by Louis
Majorelle (1902-1903)
Dining room by architect
Eugène Vallin and
furniture designer Victor
Prouvé (1903-1906)
12. Britain - Arts and Crafts and the Glasgow School
In Britain, the Arts and Crafts movement, launched early in the
1880s, had advocated finely-crafted, hand-made furniture, in a
reaction against factory-made mass-produced furniture.
Armchair by
Charles Rennie
Macintosh
(1897)
Dining room chair
by Charles Rennie
Mackintosh (1897)
The Willow Tea Room at the Glasgow
School, by Charles Rennie
Mackintosh and Margaret
Macdonald Mackintosh
Cabinet by Charles Rennie
Mackintosh and Margaret
Macdonald Mackintosh
13. The Netherlands - De Stijl
n The Netherlands, where Art Nouveau was known as De Stijl, the leading furniture
creator was the architect Hendrik Petrus Berlage. He denounced the 19th century as
"the century of ugliness", and wrote that "When you observe the interiors of homes,
you can only shudder at the bric-a-bra the new call an interior
Office chairs for Dutch
government by Hendrik Petrus
Berlage (1895–96)
Cabinet and writing desk by Hendrik Petrus
Berlage (1895)
Red and Blue Chair by Gerrit
Thomas Rietveld (1917)
14. Italy - Stile Liberty in Turin and Milan
In Italy, The Stile Liberty took its name from Arthur Lasenby Liberty and
the store he founded in 1874 in London, Liberty Department Store,
which specialized in importing ornaments, textiles and art objects from
Japan and the Far East.
Desk by Carlo Bugatti (1895)
(Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Chair, mirror and table by Carlo
Bugatti (1902) (Chicago Art
Institute)
A seat by Carlo Bugatti of
wood and parchment with
inlays of hammered brass,
painted decor and fringe
(c. 1900)
Table of wood, glass, and
inlays of brass and abalone
shell by Eugenio Quarti
(1900)
15. Process:
Art Nouveau artists used a unique process of
inlay, in which small pieces of different-colored
hardwoods and other natural materials are cut
out and pieced together to form a flat, ornately
decorative surface. Many furniture pieces also
incorporated elegantly curved and bent metals.
16. Art Nouveau desk and
chair, by Hector Guimard
A Buffet by Hector Guimard
Shelf Furniture by Emile
Galle
Chair by Antoni Gaudi
17. Areas influenced by Art Nouveau
FRANCE
Grand Palais
It’s all about the ironwork in the Grand Palais des
Champs-Élysées’s interior.
The Hôtel Tassel is a town house in Brussels, Belgium, designed
by Victor Horta for the scientist and professor Emile Tassel, and
built from 1892 to 1893.It is generally considered the first true
Art Nouveau building, because of its highly innovative plan and
its ground-breaking use of materials and decoration.
Belgium
18. materials used in art nouveau
1. Cast Iron
2. Steel
3. Ceramic
4. Glass
5. Hard wood ( especially walnut , oak , teak )
6. Concrete
7. Ivory
8. Gemstones
9. Colored glass
10. Seashells
11. Various metals
The Art Nouveau design movement used such materials :-
21. Henry van de velde
Famous belgian art nouveau furniture
designer apply english principles in design.
The design of this chair is closely linked with one of
henry van de velde most spectacular creations.
22. Emile Galle
Emile galle [ nancy, 8 may 1846 - nancy, 23 septembem 1904] was
a french artist who worked in glass and is considered to be one of
the major forces in the french art nouveau movement.
Dawn and Dusk bed (Aube et Crépuscule) by Émile
Gallé, 1904.
The Dawn and Dusk bed (Aube et Crépuscule) is a piece by Emile Gallé made in 1904.
Dawn is mentioned at the foot of the bed by two winged pearly mayflies. Dusk is at the
headboard with a landscape at night.
23. Louis Majorelle
Louis Majorelle was a French decorator and furniture designer who manufactured his
own designs, in the French tradition of the ébéniste. He was one of the outstanding
designers of furniture in the Art Nouveau style, and after 1901 formally served as one of
the vice-presidents of the École de Nancy (art school in French).
This cabinet is thought to have been designed by Louis Majorelle, who along
with Emile Gallé, was a leading exponent of the Art Nouveau movement in the
town of Nancy in northwestern France. Art Nouveau varied from country to
country and city to city. As practiced in Nancy, it was a Symmetrical with
decorative details, frequently inspired by Japanese design.
24. A movement
that began in
the late 19th
centuries
It aimed at
modernizing
design , seeking
to escape the
eclectic
historical styles
It also gave
way to art
deco style ,
which gained
poppularity in
1960's
Mostly
apeared in
europe , the
movement
issued a wide
variety of style
SINOPSIS ABOUT ART NOUVEAU
A movement
that had usage
of natural
forms
It had diversity
an evident
feature of art
nouveau
furniture
It ggeometric
shapes usage
& pattern in
austria
Mostly had
wooden
carving and
attention to
detail
