Art nouveau furniture design

1. Calvin Lew
Martin Low
Kai Ren Chum
Wei Hong Ee
Art Nouveau
Furniture Design by

2. Sinopsis about Art Nouveau
 A movement that beginning in the late 19th
and early 20th
centuries
 Mostly appear in Europe, the movement
issued in a wide variety of style
 Art Nouveau was aimed at modernizing
design, seeking to escape the eclectic
historical styles
 The style went out of fashion after it gave
way to Art Deco in the 1920s, but it
experienced a popular revival in the 1960s

3. Art Nouveau Furniture
 Combination in many different European styles
 The diversity found in Art Nouveau is
particularly evident in furniture.
 In essence, three developments can be made
out:
1) natural forms designs in France and Belgium
2) geometric shape and pattern in Austria
3) the formal art nouveau, which developed in
Germany.

4. Characteristic of Art Nouveau
 Natural forms
 Decorations related to nature: flowers, trees,
leaves, vines, plants, and females with long
hair
 Curved & wide lines
 Ornamental motifs (pattern)
 Lines without sharp angles
 The use of everyday objects

5. Famous Belgian Art
Nouveau furniture designer
Apply English principles in
design.
Employing dynamic and
curvy lines to functionality.
He believed in working with
the lines dictated by an
object, rather than
imposing artificial
ornamentation onto
existing features.
Henry van de Velde

6. -The design of this chair is closely linked
with one of Henry van de Velde’s most
spectacular creations.
-The earliest version, which was more
playfully organic in style, was created for
the artist’s friends.Not long afterwards a
more austere version of this piece was
made, which took up a great deal of space -
it was nearly three metres wide - with a
matching chair. Forming a suite with
matching print cabinets and bookcases,
these pieces were exhibited to great
acclaim and often published.
Graf Kessler Diplomat's Chair

7. Chair Design by Henry Van De Velde

8. -Gallé had reached international fame and
his style, with its emphasis on naturalism
and floral motifs.
Émile Gallé (Nancy, 8 May 1846 – Nancy, 23
September 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.
Émile Gallé

9. 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.

10. - A vase commissioned by Countess Henri Greffulhe as a wedding gift for Princess
Marguerite de Chartres
-Multi-layered blown crystal with inclusions of glass and gold dust, cabochons and
handles added on and fused, 1896.
Vase with lilies and daisies

11. 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).

12. Louis Majorelle, wall cabinet
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.

13. Why Art Nouveau so popular?
Simple design Beautiful, luxurious, durable,
comfortable, colorful, unique and
functionable

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