Glamour star painter Tamara de Lempicka was born into wealth and for a long time lived the life of a bohemian artist, one that was racy, risky and renowned until she retired into the seclusion in Garboesque fashion. At the exhibition in Paris exceptional designers and manufactures such as Jacques Ruhlmann, Sue et Mare, Jules Leleu, Andre Groult and Maurice Dufrene collaborated with the artisans and designers from the major Parisian department stores, to create splendid pavilions in which to show off their new contemporary designs.
Furniture gained exotic and well figured veneers, ivory inlays and stylised floral motifs. His three legged corner cabinet of lacquered rosewood inlaid with ivory, ebony and rare woods was a revolution in style.
Architecture encompassed all shapes; curves that were sleek, streamlined and highlighted by painted lines and the use of stylish new age lettering; verticals soaring upward as skyscrapers surmounted by stepped pyramidal shapes; horizontals that were all at once clean, cool filled with light and space. In cities around the world local idiosyncratic motifs, unique to each time and place, were incorporated into a building and its architectural detail.
At Sydney, Australia a twelve storey building constructed for doctors who, at the time were members of the British Medical Association , is a mini skyscraper with Gothic and Tudor details, including some extraordinary gargoyles. Originally built on a stylish street filled with elegant English Victorian style stone and lace balconied mansions, of which only two remain today, it must have taken the locals some time to come to terms with.
Near the top of its facade, which is resolved into the stepped elements now so characteristic of skyscraper Art Deco architecture, there is a group of seated knights. They are bearing the caduceus , a symbol from classical antiquity, sometimes used as a symbol of medicine on their shields.
Two large koala bears disposed symmetrically are hugging the building, perhaps reminding the doctors inside of their need for compassion in an often unfeeling contemporary world. Art Deco gathered design elements from as far away as ancient Egypt, adding aspects of every other style since and then reaching forward to the futuristic world of popular American space cowboy Buck Rogers.
Savvy and streamlined at first as it progressed the style became a cultural melting pot that included a fascination for Byzantium, the Gothic, classical Greece, the exotic Near and Far east, for South America, tribal Africa and the Ballet Russes, whose dancing troupe with their celebrity leader, Russian art critic, patron, impresario and founder, Serge Diaghilev, were busy touring around the world. It was also about the fashionable world of haute couture as dresses began to ape the crisp clean lines of a new international architectural style, while their owners sought to become celebrities, living style icons.
The Vaudeville Brasserie at Paris was just one of a new wave of glittering, glazed and glorious marble sheathed eating establishments where the art of dining in style was practiced well.
It was filled with sleek sculptures of stylized classical, but modern maidens, exuberant bronze relief panels and modernist lighting fixtures evoking an image of extreme elegance. They enjoyed living in luxurious environments, eating out in elegant restaurants and being admired for the couture clothes they wore. They sought to reinforce their avant-garde status by living art.
Stunning glass by art glass workers Rene Lalique and Daum, lighting and wrought-iron fixtures by Edgar Brandt and Charles Schneider, beautiful lacquer and metalwork produced by Jean Dunand and porcelains by the famous ceramic factory at Sevres, were featured in many glamorous interiors. The most fashionable traveled on trains and ships glimmering with glass and mirrors and shimmering from the lavish, but stylish application of gold and silver leaf. The Orient Express was the ultimate expression of style, for those wanting to project it.
Its very fit out evoked the mystery, romance and period flavour of the time. The dining car was decorated by genius glassmaker Rene Lalique, whose works were considered the height of avante garde? Bauhaus was a revolutionary school of art, architecture and design established by Walter Gropius at Weimar in Germany in Main menu additional Become a Member Shop. Art Term Art deco Art deco is a design style from the s and s in furniture, decorative arts and architecture characterised by its geometric character.
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Bauhaus Bauhaus was a revolutionary school of art, architecture and design established by Walter Gropius at Weimar in Germany in Constantin Brancusi — Art Deco, as previously mentioned, is a luxurious aesthetics that had a variety of influences from other movements.
As it was born as a celebration for the future and its accelerating progress, this major style resembles a lot to most of the Cubist artworks of the time, with its bright colors, blocky forms and exotic materials.
Although it is primarily related to the Cubist movement, it was influenced by several artistic practices deriving from the Avant-Garde, and post Art Nouveau settings. Moreover, it was full of exotic cultural elements, rich of motifs from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Asia, Mesoamerica and Africa, which were used, for instance, by French designers, aswell as all over the world.
Art Deco is famous for priming simplicity as a luxury. Art Deco, as the term suggests, was very focused on the decorative elements of this aesthetic, being highly fascinated with geometry, symmetry, continuous vertical lines, fragmented forms and abstraction. The decorative pieces of design displayed plain forms and shapes with clean, geometrical lines. This movement also demonstrated an excitement for machine-made products which reflected why everything looked so simple and symmetric: because the machines were not advanced enough at the time to produce more complex pieces.
Similar to its precedent Art Noveau, Art Deco continued to use organic motifs such as flowers, animals or human figure in stylised lines.
To emphasise the celebration of the machinery and the new times, Art Deco preferred materials such as plastics, Bakelite, and stainless steel. To refine the designs into a wealthier look, the designer often opted for more exotic materials such as ivory, horn, and zebra skin. This art style was not well received from painters and sculptors, having little or no impact. Art Deco, more than a feeling of excitement for the future felt in society, it was also inherently ornamental and decorative.
As people started priming their love for the leisure time, that leisure was also to be regarded as much inside of their homes as outside. This decorative art style gave a new stylist approach to furniture. This furniture favoured the use of wood with contrasting and exotics highlights.
Jacques-Emile Rhulmann was a famous French furniture Art Deco designer of that time, and he often used high-quality wood, contrasting with exotic wood surfaces. Incorporating bulky and curvy shapes, his designs were sleek, geometric and elegant. Other Art Deco furniture tried to incorporate more mechanical looking materials such as aluminium and chrome.
The contrasts were popular, featuring smooth and highly polished surfaces in a bold and lively black and red colours. These contrasts perfectly emphasised the modernity of the time and completed the austere look of the architectural designs at the time. The influence of Art Deco in Graphic Design was huge. Taking inspiration from Futurism and its exaltation for speed and the machine, Art deco in Graphic Design experimented a lot with the use of lines to simulate that same speed and with repetitive geometrical shapes.
Typography was vastly affected by this new aesthetic with a surge of typefaces Bifur, Broadway, and Peignot. Art Deco in design had a considerable influence from Japanese woodblock prints and its massive blocks of bold colours.
With the rise of the consumerist culture, posters were very popular, as you may imagine. With the integration of illustrative images, keeping a bold and glamourous style with geometric and stylized lines, these posters are iconic. Graphic designers at the time were interested in the use of images along with language and text, creating a powerful and communicative style. Everything building you may associate with Modernist Movement it probably has a touch of the Art Deco style.
From garages, airports, ocean liners, cinemas, swimming pools, office buildings, department stores, power stations and factories, the use of the clean line along with minimal decoration, was there. The type of buildings showing the influence of the Art Deco style was also a reflection of the more consumerist and industrialised culture.
The architecture was probably one of the most influenced areas by this new movement that continued into the '80s. These buildings were associated with entertainment, such as restaurants or hotels, with luxurious and glamourous interiors, full of lights and mirrors.
The use of mirrors reflected light, emphasising the elegant vibe of the buildings along with polished furniture.
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