Australian Art Nouveau Furniture

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Australian art nouveau furniture.

Furniture created in the art nouveau style was prominent from the beginning of the 1890s to the beginning of the first world war in 1914. Twelf art nouveau arts crafts patinated solid brass wall hooks 1900s original josef hoffmann and wiener werkstatte vienna secessonist flower stand sumptuous reed barton six fleurs sterling silver salad serving pair brass crystal jugendstil glass and brass chandelier re edition. Beginning in the late 19th century art nouveau reached its peak in 1900 with the exposition universelle in paris before all but petering out by 1914. Furniture store nadeau furniture with a soul store offers a wide variety of industrial farmhouse rustic traditional and modern home furnishings.

Art nouveau ornamental style of art that flourished between about 1890 and 1910 throughout europe and the united states art nouveau is characterized by its use of a long sinuous organic line and was employed most often in architecture interior design jewelry and glass design posters and illustration it was a deliberate attempt to create a new style free of the imitative historicism. This design was inspired by the flowing lines of art nouveau period furniture and the marquetry design was derived from drawings of flowers in the clients award winning gardens. In june 1911 archibald black a melbourne doctor and art collector gave his daughter a wedding gift but it was no ordinary present. Tables chairs and sideboards from the georgian victorian colonial edwardian and 1950s periods as well as french biedermeier gustavian art deco and arts crafts styles.

Art nouveau furniture really emphasized the art aspect with elegant linear contours and fine finishes. This art nouveau mantle is hand carved in butternut with a wide range of exotic woods and veneers in the inlay and marquetry. Art nouveau is a decorative style easily recognised by its sinuous curvilinear forms often based on the exaggeration of vines flowers and foliage. It was a three piece furniture suite handcrafted by one of australia s leading designers and conceived in the gum nut art nouveau style that was extremely popular with the wealthy elite of victoria.

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