Introduction to the Decorative Arts: 1890 to the Present DayAmanda O'Neill Contains over 200 illustrations; includes art objects, artefacts and decorative designs; charts the many art movements and prominent artistic figures of the century. |
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abstract aesthetic American architecture Art Deco ART DECO INTRODUCTION Art Deco style Art Nouveau Art Nouveau design ART NOUVEAU INTRODUCTION artists Arts and Crafts Bauhaus beauty became Britain British building C. R. Ashbee ceramics chair colour contemporary Corbusier craft ideal craftsmen created curving Daum decade DECORATIVE ARTS early elegant enamel Eugène Vallin example Exhibition fashion floral flowers France Frank Lloyd Wright French functional furniture design geometric glassware Gothic Gropius Handicraft Hector Guimard industrial influence inspired interior design ironwork Jacques Gruber Jean Dunand jewellery lacquer lamps Le Corbusier LEFT Liberty & Co machine Mackmurdo Majorelle materials medieval ment metal Middle Ages Mies MODERNISM INTRODUCTION Modernist Morris's motifs Museum Nancy ornament painted painters panels Paris patterns pieces plastic POST WAR DEVELOPMENTS postwar produced Pugin range René Lalique revival Rietveld RIGHT Rohe Ruhlmann Ruskin sculptural shapes stained glass steel Stickley stylized techniques Tiffany tion traditional vases wood workshop