$11,192
H 24.02 in W 48.04 in D 6.7 in
Rare Art Nouveau Wall Shelf by Eugene Gaillard France 1900 Jugendstil Walnut
By Eugène Gaillard
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Exquisite & most rare! This French Art Nouveau wall shelf designed by art nouveau grandmaster
Fruitwood, Walnut
$943Sale Price|20% Off
H 11.82 in W 23.63 in D 3.55 in
Art Nouveau wall shelf with poppies, France, circa 1900
Located in VÉZELAY, FR
Superb wall shelf. Art Nouveau. France, circa 1900 In carved, stained and pyrographed wood
Wood
Art Nouveau Mahogany Wall Shelf
Located in Queens, NY
English Art Nouveau mahogany and bronze dore trimmed wall shelf with horizontal bevelled glass
Bronze
Art Nouveau-Style Carved Wooden Wall Shelf
Located in Queens, NY
Art Nouveau style carved wooden wall shelf.
$2,216Sale Price|20% Off
H 16.54 in W 45.28 in D 8.86 in
Art Nouveau Oak Wall Shelf, Polished, German, Circa 1895, 115cm
Located in Darmstadt, DE
This unique hanging shelf is from the Art Nouveau period from Germany around 1895. The shelf is
Oak
$450 / set
H 15.5 in W 11.75 in D 7.75 in
Antique Art Nouveau Cast Iron Figural Phoenix Bird Wall Shelf Brackets - a Pair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Antique Art Nouveau Cast Iron Figural Phoenix Bird Wall Shelf Brackets with Added Wooden Shelves- a
Iron
Pair of Art Nouveau Cast Iron, Gilded Shelf Brackets
Located in Toronto, CA
This is an exquisite pair of large Art Nouveau, cast iron, gilded shelf brackets from the early
Iron
$4,479
H 31.5 in W 43.31 in D 7.09 in
Art Nouveau Wall Mirror in Hand-Carved Blond Walnut with Shelf and Two Drawers
By Bassano's Ebanisteria
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Art Nouveau wall mirror in hand-carved blond walnut with shelf and two drawers. Restored and
Mirror, Walnut
$3,536
H 20 in W 12.8 in D 14.5 in
Rare Art Nouveau Era Corner Bracket / Shelf with Amphictyonis Mask / Sculpture
Located in Lisse, NL
for this stunning and rare, Art Nouveau era wall bracket even includes perfect packing and also
Pine
Art Nouveau Shelf by Henry Van De Velde
By Henry van de Velde
Located in Vlimmeren, BE
This Art Nouveau shelf was designed by Henry Van De Velde in the 1930s for the Belgian railways
Metal
Émile Gallé "Papillon" Étagère Wall Shelf
By Émile Gallé
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite Galle wall shelf showcases an array of flowers, vegetables, butterflies, and moths
Fruitwood, Mahogany, Walnut
$943
H 8.67 in W 17.72 in D 8.67 in
Early 20th Century Small Tyrolean Wall Shelf, Art Nouveau, in Hand Carved Walnut
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Early 20th century small Tyrolean shelf, art nouveau, in hand-carved walnut, restored and wax
Walnut
$2,770
H 21.26 in W 67.72 in D 9.85 in
Antique , Italian , Kitchen Shelf Plate and Pot Rack, Walnut, dresser 3 Drawers
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Early 20th century Art Nouveau Italian big particular shelf with three drawers. plate and pot racks
Walnut
Art Nouveau Shelf Panel with Pastels Vernon Stokes
Located in Nice, Cote d' Azur
Carlisle for some years and later near deal in Kent. Panel mahogany new art, including two 3 frames with
Wood
Sold
H 13 in W 12 in D 5 in
Unusual Relief Carved Art Nouveau Wall Shelf Bracket, Surrealist Figures, France
Located in Buffalo, NY
Unusual relief carved Art Nouveau wall shelf, bracket, depicting surrealist figures, trees, I
Wood
Rare Emile Gallé Art Nouveau Wall Shelf, France, 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Paris, FR
Rare and elegant Art Nouveau by GALLE wall shelf in walnut wood and composed by several beautiful
Wood, Walnut
Sold
H 20 in W 28.75 in D 6.25 in
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Carved Wall Shelf by, Louis Majorelle
By Louis Majorelle
Located in Englewood, NJ
Early 20th century French Art Nouveau carved wood "Les Blés" (The Wheat) pattern wall shelf by
Wood
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H 26.78 in W 26.58 in D 7.68 in
Mahogany Art Nouveau Arts & Crafts Hanging Shelf Étagère by K.P.C. de Bazel
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Magnificent and rare Art Nouveau Arts & Crafts hanging shelf étagère. Design by K.P.C. de Bazel
Mahogany
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Style Brass Wall Bracket Shelf
Located in Dallas, TX
Early 20th century, Art Nouveau style brass wall bracket shelf. Beautiful quality brass casting
Ormolu
French Art Nouveau Wood and Glass Shelf by, Jacques Gruber
By Jacques Gruber
Located in Englewood, NJ
A rare French Art Nouveau carved mahogany and glass wall shelf by, Jacques Gruber decorated an acid
Art Glass, Mahogany
Sold
H 15.36 in W 30.32 in D 6.11 in
Antique French Art Nouveau wall shelf 1900 hammered brass floral Cherry wood
Located in Ijzendijke, NL
Gorgeous & rare! This French art nouveau wall shelf made out of cherry wood & decorated with
Brass, Bronze
Sold
H 19.69 in W 14.97 in D 12.21 in
Vintage Modernist / Art Nouveau Wall Shelf with Stained Glass Door
Located in Madrid, ES
This charming vintage Art Nouveau / Modernist style wall shelf would be a perfect place to display
Glass, Wood
19th Century Faux Bamboo Wall Bracket Shelf
Located in High Point, NC
Late 19th century faux bamboo wall bracket shelf. The top is a generously sized semi-circle
Cherry
Original Wall Shelf Emile Galle Art Nouveau, circa 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Berlin, DE
Original wall shelf Emile Galle Art Nouveau, circa 1900 Shield-shaped, inlaid mural created by
Walnut
Sold
H 6.3 in W 15.56 in D 4.73 in
A small Wall Shelf with gilded decorations. Art Nouveau, early 20th Century
Located in Knivsta, SE
A small and beautiful Wall Shelf in stained beech with gilded decorations. Period Art Nouveau from
Gold Plate, Brass
Sold
H 33.08 in W 22.84 in D 7.88 in
Thonet Vienna Art Nouveau Wall Étagère No 51, Book Shelf, Mahogany stained, 1903
By Gebrüder Thonet Vienna GmbH
Located in Vienna, AT
Elegantly shaped etagere with four large storage levels, the straight uprights slightly flared in the lowest area, decorative, openwork struts in the form of repeating stylized conta...
Beech
Art Nouveau Wooden Wall Shelf, circa 1900
Located in Raalte, NL
Antique wooden Art Nouveau wall shelf with various sizes of shelves and underneath a few metal
Wood
Daum Pate de Verre Amaryllis Vase, Signed Daum, France Number 94
By Daum
Located in Lexington, KY
Daum Pate de Verre Amaryllis Vase in pinks and greens. This piece is signed Daum, France and numbered 94. This piece has been retired and is no longer in production. Since 1878,...
Glass
On Hold|$3,900
H 18 in Dm 10 in
Austrian Art Nouveau Table Lamp w/ Original Hand Blown Iridescent Glass Shade
By Loetz Glass
Located in Petaluma, CA
A fine example of Art Nouveau lighting. The bronze base is richly patinated and beautifully cast with an art nouveau design. The shade is a deep green when lit and purple and green w...
Bronze
$1,750Sale Price|30% Off
H 24.5 in W 8 in D 8 in
Antique Victorian Aesthetic Arts Nouveau Stained Slag Glass Parlor Lamp 25"
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique Victorian era Aesthetic Movement / Art Nouveau style table lamp. Mushroom shaped lamp crafted of swirling blue, white, and purple slag glass framed with ornate filigree brass...
Slag Glass
Art Nouveau Sellette by Gaillard
By Eugène Gaillard
Located in New York, NY
A French Art Nouveau walnut wood sellette by Eugène Gaillard. The sellette has three shelves. The middle shelf extends beyond the carved, curving legs in two directions. It is suppor...
Bronze
Fine French Art Deco amboyna vanity/ dressing table w/ brass trim
Located in New York City, NY
As an ode to the glamour of the Roaring Twenties, this stunning original 1930s dressing table exudes Hollywood glamour with its exotic amboyna grain. The wood exhibits exquisite an...
Brass
$229,865Sale Price|33% Off
H 51.19 in W 55.12 in D 201.58 in
Rare Victorian Firescreen with Taxidermy Hummingbirds by Henry Ward
By Henry Ward
Located in Amsterdam, NL
England, third quarter of the 19th century On two scrolling foliate feet with casters, above which a rectangular two-side glazed frame, with on top a two-sided shield with initial...
Other
$3,650
H 23.5 in W 18.75 in D 18.75 in
Antique Middle Eastern Arabesque Style Mother of Pearl Inlaid Table
Located in Houston, TX
Antique Middle Eastern, Moroccan or Moorish Arabesque style octagonal side table. This beautiful table has a great pattern with alternating intricately inlaid mixed woods and mother-...
Wood
$1,473,494
H 34.65 in W 39.57 in D 21.26 in
17th Century Japanese Export Lacquer Cabinet with Depiction the Dutch Tradepost
Located in Amsterdam, NL
A highly important Japanese export lacquer cabinet with depiction of the Dutch East India Company tradepost Deshima and the annual Dutch delegation on its way to the Shogun in Edo ...
Copper, Gold
Art Nouveau Wall Cabinet
Located in Banská Štiavnica, SK
Art nouveau carved wall cabinet in excellent original condition.
Wood
Art Deco Wrought Iron Vanity
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sculptural hand hammered and forged Art Deco Desk/Vanity/Console in the style of Edgar Brandt circa 1930s. Mixed materials.
Aluminum, Copper, Wrought Iron
Chinese Export Four Panel Coromandel Screen Cranes on Gold Leaf
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Dazzling Chinese export lacquered four-panel coromandel screen featuring a flora and fauna waterscape with stylized cranes. The carved lacquer panels are embellished with vivid color...
Brass, Gold Leaf
$3,400
H 15.75 in W 14.25 in D 7 in
Japanese Marquetry and Lacquer Jewelry Chest, Meiji Period, circa 1900, Japan
Located in Austin, TX
A very attractive Japanese wood table top jewelry or collector's chest with marquetry and lacquer decoration, Meiji period, circa 1900, Japan. Previously in the collection of Asbjorn...
Wood, Softwood, Lacquer
Stunning Art Deco Style Six Panel Screen
Located in Bradenton, FL
Stunning six panel screen/room divider. Screen is designed to replicate tiles of the art deco era, painted in rich colors including sage green, rust, burgundy, and pink. Two splendi...
Wood
$1,514
H 20.08 in W 5.12 in D 13.39 in
French Art Nouveau Bronze Table Lamp with Glass Shade Signed GV De Croismare
By G.V. Croismare
Located in Barntrup, DE
French Art Nouveau bronze table lamp with glass shade signed GV de Croismare, from circa the 1920s. An adorable and large French bronze table lamp adorned with acanthus leaf scrolls...
Bronze
Émile Gallé small Cameo vase, Art Nouveau, ca 1900
By Émile Gallé
Located in Delft, NL
Émile Gallé small Cameo vase, Art Nouveau, ca 1900 Émile Gallé (Nancy, 1846 –1904) was a French glassmaker and furniture designer Émile Gallé 20 cm high footed Cameo vase made in...
Glass
Art Deco Luxury Vanity Console in Walnut, Ebony and Marble
Located in Antwerp, BE
High-end walnut and ebony vanity table This eclectic and exuberant piece shows a beautiful form with stunning details such as the hand carved claw feet and flower motives Th...
Marble
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
CHARACTERISTICS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN
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.
Aside from his iconic commercial prints, the Czech artist endeavored to make works that spoke to the soul.
From vibrant to subtle, elegant to cheeky, enamel jewelry encompasses a wide range of colors and styles, and there are almost as many techniques for creating these distinctive pieces.
The first art and design movement of the 20th century was all about celebrating beauty of women and nature.