Introduction to the Decorative Arts: 1890 to the Present DayAmanda O'Neill Illustrated in colour throughout Amanda O'Neill examines the way fashion has changed and how it has affected the way objects are decorated from the largest buildings to the smallest pieces of jewellery. |
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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 Hector Guimard industrial influence inspired interior design ironwork Jacques Gruber Jean 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