French Art Nouveau Furniture
Vintage 1920s French Art Nouveau Table Lamps
Wrought Iron
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Decorative Art
Leather
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Paintings
Glass, Hardwood
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Decorative Art
Ceramic
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Side Chairs
Bentwood
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Antiquities
Wire
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Signs
Wrought Iron
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Decorative Art
Brass
Vintage 1920s French Art Nouveau Table Lamps
Wrought Iron
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Chairs
Fruitwood
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Children's Furniture
Fruitwood
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Posters
Paper
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Ceramics
Ceramic
Vintage 1910s French Art Nouveau Dining Room Tables
Walnut
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Side Tables
Bronze
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Armchairs
Cane, Walnut
20th Century French Art Nouveau Inkwells
Bronze
Vintage 1910s French Art Nouveau Table Lamps
Bronze
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Pedestals
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases
Zinc
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Pedestals
Rosewood
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Boxes
Ormolu
20th Century French Art Nouveau Candlesticks
Copper, Bronze
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Ceramics
Ceramic
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Boxes
Silver
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Armchairs
Walnut, Upholstery
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Vitrines
Walnut
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Chandeliers and Pendants
Bronze, Wrought Iron
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Chandeliers and Pendants
Bronze
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Marble, Pewter
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Beds and Bed Frames
Mahogany
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Armchairs
Upholstery, Walnut
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Sculptures
Marble, Bronze
Vintage 1920s French Art Nouveau Floor Lamps
Brass, Bronze
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Chairs
Wood
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Glass
Gold Leaf
20th Century Art Nouveau Pedestals
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Dining Room Tables
Walnut
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Inkwells
Bronze
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Tables
Ebony, Macassar, Walnut
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Armchairs
Oak
20th Century French Art Nouveau Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Benches
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Clocks
Marble, Onyx, Ormolu
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Doors and Gates
Walnut
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Pedestals
Wood
Vintage 1910s French Art Nouveau Chandeliers and Pendants
Bronze
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Tables
Wood
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Centerpieces
Porcelain
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Table Lamps
Bronze
20th Century French Art Nouveau Barware
Bronze
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Tables
Walnut
Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Serving Pieces
Metal
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Andirons
Brass, Wrought Iron
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Center Tables
Bronze
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Fireplaces and Mantels
Walnut
Antique Late 19th Century French Art Nouveau Fireplaces and Mantels
Marble
Antique Early 19th Century French Art Nouveau Wall Mirrors
Giltwood
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Pedestals
Wood
20th Century French Art Nouveau Centerpieces
Bronze
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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.
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