Art Nouveau Display
Antique Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Cabinets
Mahogany
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Cupboards
Walnut
Vintage 1920s European Art Nouveau Cabinets
Wood
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Cabinets
Walnut
Antique 19th Century European Art Nouveau Vitrines
Belgian Black Marble
Vintage 1930s Swedish Art Nouveau Vitrines
Mahogany, Walnut
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Art Nouveau Vitrines
Glass, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Renaissance Side Tables
Wood
Antique 19th Century English Art Nouveau Bookcases
Glass, Oak
Vintage 1920s German Art Nouveau Barware
Metal
Early 20th Century European Art Nouveau Vitrines
Glass, Wood
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Art Nouveau Credenzas
Bronze
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Cabinets
Glass, Mirror, Walnut
20th Century Art Nouveau Vanity Items
Early 20th Century Unknown Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes
Wood
Vintage 1910s Art Nouveau Pocket Watches
Silver
Vintage 1970s Italian Art Nouveau Architectural Elements
Iron
Vintage 1920s Italian Art Nouveau Wall-mounted Sculptures
Pottery
Vintage 1970s American Art Nouveau Models and Miniatures
Metal
Vintage 1980s American Art Nouveau Vitrines
Concrete
Antique 1890s German Art Nouveau Console Tables
Brass
Antique 1890s English Art Nouveau Cabinets
Mahogany
Antique Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Cabinets
Mahogany
Vintage 1910s Belgian Art Nouveau Cabinets
Copper
Antique 19th Century Art Nouveau Cabinets
Rosewood
Vintage 1920s French Art Nouveau Architectural Elements
Iron
Antique Early 1900s English Art Nouveau Vitrines
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Scottish Vitrines
Copper
Antique Early 1900s European Art Nouveau Cabinets
Gesso, Mahogany
20th Century French Cabinets
Bronze
Early 20th Century Scottish Cabinets
Mahogany, Glass
Early 20th Century Dutch Art Nouveau Vitrines
Mahogany, Glass
Antique Early 1900s Italian Art Nouveau Centerpieces
Silver Plate
Antique Late 19th Century British Cabinets
Mahogany
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Vitrines
Early 20th Century Scottish Cabinets
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Vitrines
Copper
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vitrines
Wood
20th Century Art Nouveau Porcelain
Porcelain
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Buffets
Oak, Walnut
Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Credenzas
Bronze
Early 20th Century English Pedestals
Brass
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vitrines
Bronze
20th Century American Art Nouveau Easels
Wood, Oak
Early 20th Century British Vases
Ceramic
Vintage 1910s Scottish Cabinets
Stained Glass
Vintage 1910s American Cabinets
Walnut
Antique Late 19th Century Art Nouveau Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Mahogany
Early 20th Century Swedish Art Nouveau Cabinets
Mahogany
20th Century French Art Nouveau Bookcases
Late 20th Century Art Nouveau Bottles
Glass
Vintage 1920s French Art Nouveau Cabinets
Stained Glass, Oak
Early 20th Century Czech Art Nouveau Vitrines
Metal
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Cabinets
Glass, Oak
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Cabinets
Glass, Wood
Early 20th Century European Art Nouveau Easels
Teak
20th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Cabinets
Walnut, Burl
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Cabinets
Glass, Wood
Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Table Mirrors
Metal
20th Century Indian Art Nouveau Picture Frames
Brass
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A Close Look at art-nouveau Furniture
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. 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.
Art Nouveau can be easily identified by its lush, flowing forms suggested by flowers and plants, as well as the lissome tendrils of sea life. 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. 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 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. 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.