Art glass vase and candlesticks by Louis Comfort Tiffany/Tiffany Studios, Corona, New York. American. Collections of the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia.
Category: Art Nouveau
Art Nouveau flowers, artwork done by Maurice Pillard and taken from the pages of “Etude de la plante: son application aux industries d’art: pochoir, papier peint, etoffes, céramique, marqueterie, tapis, ferronnerie, reliure, dentelles, broderies, vitrail, mosaïque, bijouterie, bronze, orfévrerie” which was printed in Paris in 1903 by the Librairie Centrale des Beaux-Arts.
Plates of architectural décor used at the Castel Béranger, an Art Nouveau era apartment building built in Paris in the late 1890s. Taken from the 1898 work by Hector Guimard “Le Castel Béranger,” Guimard having been the architect. French. Collections of the Wolfsonian-FIU Rare Books and Special Collections Library in Florida.
Jugendstil buildings imagined up in an ethereal way. Plates from the wonderful “Moderne Bauformen. Eine Sammlung von Details, Interieurs und Façaden für Architekten und Bauhandwerker” which came out in Stuttgart in 1903 and 1904. Various artists, Julius Hoffmann Verlag publisher.
There are 181 images altogether and 18 screens left to go. So more soon.
More Art Nouveau ceramics, these from the Netherlands. N.S.A. Brantjes & Company, creators. Not in business all that long, but long enough to be part of the expositions in Paris and Saint Louis in 1900 and 1904.
Antique trays made to hold your friends calling cards. So much jazzier than an ancient saucer from the kitchen. Made in Germany by WMF. Starting up in 1853 they are still making things though not ones that look like these.
Vases by George Paulding Farnham, chief designer for Tiffany & Company from 1885 to 1907. Art Nouveau. American.
