Australian Art Nouveau Furniture

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.

Australian art nouveau furniture.

In june 1911 archibald black a melbourne doctor and art collector gave his daughter a wedding gift but it was no ordinary present. 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. Art nouveau played an important role in the evolution of furniture design paving the way for art deco of the 1920s and after a popular revival in the 1960s also set the foundation of modernism. 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.

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. Visit a location near you. It characteristically used forms based on nature such as vines flowers and water lilies and featured curving and undulating lines sometimes known as the whiplash line both in the form and the decoration. 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.

This art nouveau mantle is hand carved in butternut with a wide range of exotic woods and veneers in the inlay and marquetry. Furniture store nadeau furniture with a soul store offers a wide variety of industrial farmhouse rustic traditional and modern home furnishings. View more than 1 542 items of antique vintage and mid century furniture for sale online sourced from australia england and france. 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.

These pieces were not cheap to make either. Back to all categories furniture 1 729 serveware ceramics silver and glass 510 decorative objects 385 wall decorations 351 lighting 260 more furniture and collectibles 135 asian art and furniture 90 tables 83 seating 68 case pieces and storage cabinets 25 folk art 22 rugs and carpets 19 building and garden elements 16 mirrors 13 see more.