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Art Nouveau was ahistorical style that emerged during the 1880-s. It was inspired by the earlier British Art and Crafts Movement, which was sometimes known as the “New Art”.
During 1890-s, Charles Rennie Mackintosh and designers associated with the Vienna Secession, such as Josef Maria Olbrich, introduced abstracted naturalistic forms to design that were curvilinear while others, such as Hermann Obrist and August Endell, pioneered the use of whiplash motifs.
One of the greatest exponents of Art Nouveau was the Belgian architect Victor Horta, whose Hotel Tassel (1892-1893) was one of the first expressions of the style in architecture. It’s interesting that Horta was attracted to the architectural profession at the age of twelve, when he helped his uncle on a building site at the age of twelve.
Similarly, in France, the style became known as “Style Guimard” in recognition of the writing and intertwined forms employed by Hector Guimard – most notably for his cast-iron entrances to the Paris Metro (1900). There the term “Le Style Modern” was also used to identify Art Nouveau style flourished through the work of Antonio Gaudi and his followers.
The sinuous lines and elongation of floral forms, whichreadily identify Art Nouveau, were directly inspired by the natural world rather than past styles. The reason designers of the 1890-s looked to nature for inspiration had much to do with earlier scientific research into the working of the natural world such as Charles Darwin’s treatise On the Origin Space, published in 1859, the botanical illustrations of Ernst Haeckel and the exquisite photographic flower studies taken by Karl Blossfeld rejection of historcism, Art Nouveau can be considered the first truly modern interpretation style.
As a result it was overtaken stylistically in the early 20-th century by the machine aesthetic and the avant-garde’s preference for simple geometric forms better suited to industrial production.
Knowledge of different styles and history of art can inspire you to look stylish every day.
By the way how to wear one or another clothes, the way of combination of different things though it were leather shorts or regular dress.
December 11th, 2011 | Author: admin
There are great number of opportunities to creating your own unique home style today. Anything you need for you can find and buy online whether it were designer furniture, contemporary and modern home furnishings and accessories, including bedrooms, dining tooms, kids rooms, living rooms, lighting, rugs. wall decor, any ultimate decor of your dreams.
As to me I love opened modern good lighted places with minimal furniture and decor.
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June 13th, 2011 | Author: admin
Functionalism is essentially an approach to architecture and design rather than a style, and is concerned with addressing practical problems as logically and efficiently as possible. The origins of Functionalism can be found in the theories of the first-century BC Roman architect Vitruvius, which themselves were based on the Hellenistic tradition.
The Classical of functional approach to architecture has since been revived many times: during the Renaissance in the 15-th and 16-th centuries, in the 18 century by Neo-Classical architects and in the 19th century by luminaries such as Gottfried Semper and Eugene-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc. In the last half of the 19th century, design reformers in Britain such as A.W.N.Pugin and William Morris also advocated a functional approach to desugn, which led to the manufacture of illuminant products.
But it was American architect Louis Sullivan who coined the expression “form follows function” in 1896 and who is therefore commonly credited with formulating 20th-century Functionalism. During the early half of the 20th century, however, Modern Movement designers allied Functionalism with Rationalism and looked for universal design solutions rather than national ones. The teaching at the Staatliches Bauhaus in Dessau was founded on this quest and designers such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier and J.J.P. Oud experimented with industrial materials such as tubular metal, steel and glass so as to create functional furniture and buildings.
June 7th, 2011 | Author: Surfer
I suppose Table Chair is great idea because sometimes you need an extra chair and sometimes you need a table that’s truth. These modern chairs can be either or depending on your needs. By simply pushing the two chairs together they transform into a table. Each chair has a notch to slide in one another. Now unused seating has some other place to go. When you’ve got visitors and need an extra chair or two you simply pull them apart. Tada, you got two chairs! This needs to show up at IKEA stat!
The Table Chair, by Joel Hesselgren, uses a notched, slot together design for the transformation into 1980s executive lounge coffee table, a simple and clever idea. The only problem we can see (apart from the chairs looking so damn uncomfortable) is that the slotted backs would cause the chairs to flex horribly. For occasional use only.