Antique Edwardian Art Nouveau Fireplace Insert Antique Edwardian Art Nouveau cast iron and tiled fireplace insert with repeating Art Nouveau design to the frame, circa 1905.

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Antique Early 1900s Fireplaces and Mantels

Art Nouveau period cast iron balustrade - Ca 1900

Unavailable

H 61.03 in W 8,661.43 in

Art Nouveau period cast iron balustrade - Ca 1900

Located in Richebourg, Yvelines

Attributed to Hector GUIMARD, important cast iron Art Nouveau balustrade. Accidents and losses. # E5360

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Antique 19th Century French Art Nouveau Balustrades and Fixtures

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Iron

French Art Nouveau Decorative Cast Iron Plaque signed Sergeff

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Unavailable

H 35 in W 19.7 in D 10.2 in

Art Nouveau Iron Stick Stand

Located in Newcastle Upon Tyne, GB

An early 20th century Edwardian cast iron stick and umbrella stand. The Art Nouveau design cast iron frame is black painted and highlighted in gilt with a decorative copper panel ...

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Early 20th Century English Art Nouveau Umbrella Stands

Cast Iron Passion Flower Bench

Unavailable

H 35 in W 41 in D 30 in

Cast Iron Passion Flower Bench

Located in Long Island, NY

A desirable passion flower bench in cast iron. this pattern does not turn up frequently in the marketplace and is therefore most desirable The arms terminate in parrot heads, raised...

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Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Patio and Garden Furniture

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Iron

Art Nouveau Victorian Cast Iron Hall Stand in the manner of Christopher Dresser

Unavailable

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Unavailable

$2,850

H 77.5 in W 36 in D 22 in

French Cast Iron Corner Portmanteau, Hall Tree with a Hunt Motif

Located in Dallas, TX

A French cast iron corner hall tree with a hunt motif.

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Antique 19th Century French Belle Époque Coat Racks and Stands

Late 19th Century Pair of Cast Iron Garden Fluted Urn Planters

$1,850 / set

H 27.25 in W 19.5 in D 19.5 in

Late 19th Century Pair of Cast Iron Garden Fluted Urn Planters

Located in Haddonfield, NJ

Impressive pair of late 19th Century classic garden urns. This pair features signs of old light blue or turquoise colored paint and a fluted iron cast body, square pedestal bases and...

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Antique Late 19th Century Neoclassical Urns

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Metal, Cast Iron

Pair of Small Cast Iron Victorian Style Urns

$750 / set

H 7.75 in Dm 5.75 in

Pair of Small Cast Iron Victorian Style Urns

Located in Sheffield, MA

The pair of small Victorian urns are cast in iron and are embellished with protruding fluting and egg-and-dart rims.

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20th Century American Victorian Urns

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Iron

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Located in Stow on the Wold, GB

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Antique 1880s English Victorian Lounge Chairs

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Upholstery, Mahogany

Striking Art Nouveau Ceramic and Bronze-Mounted Vase in Victor Horta Style

$2,728

H 10.75 in W 5.25 in D 4.4 in

Striking Art Nouveau Ceramic and Bronze-Mounted Vase in Victor Horta Style

By Victor Horta

Located in Lisse, NL

Top condition and pure elegance Art Nouveau vase. For the collectors of museum quality and condition Art Nouveau ceramics. This stunning Art Nouveau vase is decorated with the mos...

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Early 20th Century European Art Nouveau Vases

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Bronze

$13,750 / set

$14,975 / set

H 61 in W 47.25 in D 25.5 in

1920"s Art Nouveau Mahogany Ormolu Mounted Vanity and Majorelle Stool

By Louis Majorelle

Located in Swedesboro, NJ

This elegant early twentieth-century French Art Nouveau vanity is a remarkable example of the movement's celebration of organic beauty, exceptional craftsmanship, and functional desi...

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Vintage 1920s French Art Nouveau Vanities

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Mahogany

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Art Nouveau Cast Iron For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the art nouveau cast iron you’re looking for. Frequently made of metal, iron and brass, every art nouveau cast iron was constructed with great care. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer art nouveau cast iron, there are earlier versions available from the 19th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. Each art nouveau cast iron bearing Art Nouveau, Victorian or Arts and Crafts hallmarks is very popular. Raadvad, Castirone and Daum each produced at least one beautiful art nouveau cast iron that is worth considering.

How Much is a Art Nouveau Cast Iron?

An art nouveau cast iron can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $1,766, while the lowest priced sells for $275 and the highest can go for as much as $45,000.

A Close Look at Art Nouveau Furniture

In its sinuous lines and flamboyant curves inspired by the natural world, antique Art Nouveau furniture reflects a desire for freedom from the stuffy social and artistic strictures of the Victorian era. The Art Nouveau movement developed in the decorative arts in France and Britain in the early 1880s and quickly became a dominant aesthetic style in Western Europe and the United States.

ORIGINS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN

Emerged during the late 19th century
Popularity of this modernizing style declined in the early 20th century
Originated in France and Britain but variants materialized elsewhere
Informed by Rococo, Pre-Raphaelite art, Japanese art (and Japonisme), Arts and Crafts; influenced modernism, Bauhaus

CHARACTERISTICS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN

Sinuous, organic and flowing lines
Forms that mimic flowers and plant life
Decorative inlays and ornate carvings of natural-world motifs such as insects and animals
Use of hardwoods such as oak, mahogany and rosewood

ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

ANTIQUE ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS

Art Nouveau — which spanned furniture, architecture, jewelry and graphic design — can be easily identified by its lush, flowing forms suggested by flowers and plants, as well as the lissome tendrils of sea life. Although Art Deco and Art Nouveau were both in the forefront of turn-of-the-20th-century design, they are very different styles — Art Deco is marked by bold, geometric shapes while Art Nouveau incorporates dreamlike, floral motifs. The latter’s 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.

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. Impressionist artists were moved by the artistic tradition of Japanese woodblock printmaking, and Japonisme — a term used to describe the appetite for Japanese art and culture in Europe at the time — greatly informed Art Nouveau.

The Art Nouveau style quickly reached a wide audience in Europe via advertising posters, book covers, illustrations and other work by such artists as Aubrey Beardsley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha. While all Art Nouveau designs share common formal elements, different countries and regions produced their own variants.

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. 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.

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.

Art Nouveau revitalized all of the applied arts. Ceramists such as Ernest Chaplet and Edmond Lachenal created new forms covered in novel and rediscovered glazes that produced thick, foam-like finishes. 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.

Jewelry design was revolutionized, as settings, for the first time, were emphasized as much as, or more than, gemstones. A favorite Art Nouveau jewelry motif was insects (think of Tiffany, in his famed Dragonflies glass lampshade).

Like a mayfly, Art Nouveau was short-lived. 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. But as the designs on 1stDibs demonstrate, Art Nouveau retains its power to fascinate and seduce.

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.

Art Nouveau Master Alphonse Mucha Created Much More Than Parisian Posters

Aside from his iconic commercial prints, the Czech artist endeavored to make works that spoke to the soul.

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