Beaux Arts Fountains
Beaux Arts furniture included chairs replicating models from the Renaissance and sofas inspired by Louis XIV. These pieces filled high-ceilinged rooms that featured tapestries fit for a medieval castle and were illuminated by crystal chandeliers reminiscent of those in European palaces. Leon Marcotte Company created furnishings for the White House mimicking the style of Louis XVI, while in France, cabinetmaker Louis Majorelle reproduced 18th-century pieces that would influence his later Art Nouveau style.
Students at the École des Beaux-Arts in 19th-century Paris meticulously sketched Roman and Greek art and architecture as part of a curriculum that elevated the classical world. This reverence for history informed the architecture and design being constructed in the French capital and beyond, where columns and pediments were joined with elements referencing the Renaissance and Baroque eras, culminating in grand civic buildings such as the Palais Garnier opera house constructed under Napoleon III.
Beaux Arts style, also known as Classical Eclecticism for its flamboyant mixing of influences, made its way to the United States in the late 19th century through American architects who studied in Paris, like Richard Morris Hunt and Charles Follen McKim. They designed monumental turn-of-the-century buildings like train stations, libraries, museums and mansions that featured soaring entry halls and grand stairways with nearly every surface embellished, from mosaic floors to stained-glass ceilings. The luxurious interiors of these Beaux Arts buildings, which weren’t crowded with objects as in the Victorian era, matched this spirit of opulence and embraced the past.
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1950s English Vintage Beaux Arts Fountains
Aluminum
Early 20th Century French Beaux Arts Fountains
Cast Stone
1890s English Antique Beaux Arts Fountains
Lead
Mid-20th Century Beaux Arts Fountains
Bronze
1970s Italian Vintage Beaux Arts Fountains
Limestone
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Fountains
Stone, Cast Stone, Cement
18th Century Italian Antique Beaux Arts Fountains
Marble, Concrete
21st Century and Contemporary French Beaux Arts Fountains
Limestone
21st Century and Contemporary Beaux Arts Fountains
Bronze
Early 1900s French Antique Beaux Arts Fountains
Metal, Iron
Late 20th Century Beaux Arts Fountains
Iron
Early 1900s French Antique Beaux Arts Fountains
Stone
2010s American Beaux Arts Fountains
Stone
1820s French Antique Beaux Arts Fountains
Iron
1970s Japanese Vintage Beaux Arts Fountains
Bronze
20th Century Beaux Arts Fountains
Bronze
1920s American Vintage Beaux Arts Fountains
Bronze