Loetz Art Nouveau

Czech Art Glass Vases

Vase Loetz Bohemia

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Glass

Loetz, Alphonse Debain, an Art Nouveau Iridescent Glass Bowl

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H 4.53 in Dm 6.3 in

Loetz, Alphonse Debain, an Art Nouveau Iridescent Glass Bowl

By Alphonse Debain, L'Escalier de Cristal, Loetz Glass

Located in Monte Carlo, MC

Loetz. Alphonse Debain. Escalier De crystal. An Art Nouveau iridescent glass bowl.

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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Vases

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Silver

Loetz Austrian Art Glass Vase with Sterling Silver Overlay

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H 6.5 in W 3.5 in D 3.5 in

Loetz Austrian Art Glass Vase with Sterling Silver Overlay

By Loetz Glass

Located in Santa Rosa, CA

Art Nouveau period Loetz Vase with silver overlay

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Antique 19th Century Austrian Art Nouveau Vases

Art Nouveau lamp

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H 14.25 in W 9.75 in D 9.5 in

Art Nouveau lamp

By Loetz Glass

Located in Bronx, NY

This antique Art Nouveau bronze table lamp features two flowing arms, each carrying a Loetz pulled feather shade.

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Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Table Lamps

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Bronze

Loetz Vase "Candia Papillon"

Unavailable

H 9.84 in

Loetz Vase "Candia Papillon"

By Loetz Glass

Located in Niederrussback, AT

Vase in form of a rose vessel "candia papillon" Loetz Wwe., Klostermühle, circa 1900 Colorless glass with rolled silver yellow frits. Wall dented in triplicate. Matt iridescent. He...

Art Glass

Unavailable

H 3.94 in W 2.56 in D 1.58 in

Art Nouveau Pair of Creta Glass Silvered Papillon Amphora Vases by Johann Loetz

Located in Cape Town, ZA

A pair of iridescent glass Amphora vases with a silver Art Nouveau organic floral decoration applied to the body and neck of the vases.

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Antique Early 1900s South African Art Nouveau Vases

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Glass

Beautiful Loetz Orange Opal Serie III Czech Art Nouveau Glass Bowl

Unavailable

H 5.5 in Dm 8.5 in

Beautiful Loetz Orange Opal Serie III Czech Art Nouveau Glass Bowl

By Michael Powolny

Located in Manhattan, NY

Michael Powolny (Austrian, 1871-1954) a Loetz bowl. Clear cased glass over orange with a solid black rim and raised on a black glass triple stem band.

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Vintage 1910s Czech Art Deco Glass

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Blown Glass

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Blown Glass

Monumental Loetz Flower Vase circa 1910 Silberblatt Decoration

Unavailable

H 15.95 in Dm 8.67 in

Monumental Loetz Flower Vase circa 1910 Silberblatt Decoration

By Loetz Glass

Located in Vienna, AT

Organic shapes were highly appreciated by the buying audience and the designers of the Loetz manufacture invented a high number of floral objects. Jack-in-the-pulpit and floriform va...

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Vintage 1910s Austrian Art Nouveau Vases

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Glass

Loetz Vase Unknown Decor Phenomen Genre Signed, circa 1900

Unavailable

H 4.7 in Dm 2.6 in

Loetz Vase Unknown Decor Phenomen Genre Signed, circa 1900

By Loetz Glass

Located in Vienna, AT

This small vase with an Unknown Phenomen Decor embodies the idea of Art Nouveau glass. Its shape could be based on the shape of a flower pistil or a calyx, thus taking account of the...

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Antique Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Vases

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Glass

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Loetz Art Nouveau For Sale on 1stDibs

Find many varieties of an authentic loetz art nouveau available at 1stDibs. Each loetz art nouveau for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using glass, art glass and metal. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect loetz art nouveau — we have versions that date back to the 19th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. A loetz art nouveau is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Art Nouveau styles are sought with frequency. A well-made loetz art nouveau has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Loetz Glass, Johann Lötz Witwe and La Pierre Manufacturing are consistently popular.

How Much is a Loetz Art Nouveau?

A loetz art nouveau can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $2,919, while the lowest priced sells for $277 and the highest can go for as much as $29,850.

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.