Art Nouveau Silver Plated
Antique Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes
Silver Plate, Brass
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage 1920s German Art Nouveau Table Lamps
Silver
20th Century Mexican Art Nouveau Candlesticks
Silver Plate, Brass
Mid-20th Century Spanish Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
Mid-20th Century French Art Nouveau Wall Lights and Sconces
Silver Plate
Vintage 1970s Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes
Sterling Silver
Vintage 1910s German Art Nouveau Candelabras
Metal, Silver Plate
Antique 1890s German Empire Candlesticks
Silver Plate, Pewter
Vintage 1980s Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Early 20th Century German Art Nouveau Religious Items
Silver Plate, Sheet Metal
Vintage 1920s French Art Nouveau Table Lamps
Art Glass
Antique Early 1900s German Centerpieces
Metal
Early 20th Century American Art Nouveau Wall Lights and Sconces
Silver Plate
Antique Early 1900s German Arts and Crafts Decorative Boxes
Metal, Silver Plate, Pewter
Vintage 1960s Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes
Crystal, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Picture Frames
Zinc
Vintage 1920s German Art Nouveau Table Lamps
Metal
Vintage 1920s Spanish Art Nouveau Cabinets
Wood, Leather
Vintage 1960s Swedish Art Nouveau Table Lamps
Brass
Antique Early 1900s Italian Art Nouveau Religious Items
Silver Plate, Sheet Metal
Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Candelabras
Metal, Silver, Silver Plate
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Art Nouveau Religious Items
Silver Plate, Sheet Metal
Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Religious Items
Silver Plate, Sheet Metal
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Art Nouveau Religious Items
Silver Plate, Sheet Metal
Antique Late 19th Century Italian Art Nouveau Religious Items
Silver Plate, Sheet Metal
Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Religious Items
Silver Plate, Sheet Metal
Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Religious Items
Silver Plate, Sheet Metal
Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Religious Items
Silver Plate, Sheet Metal
Antique Early 1900s Italian Art Nouveau Religious Items
Silver Plate, Sheet Metal
Vintage 1970s Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Antique Early 1900s Austrian Art Nouveau Tobacco Accessories
Gold Plate, Silver, Enamel
Early 20th Century German Art Nouveau Religious Items
Silver Plate, Sheet Metal
Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Religious Items
Silver Plate, Sheet Metal
Vintage 1960s Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage 1960s Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage 1960s Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Early 20th Century German Art Nouveau Religious Items
Silver Plate, Sheet Metal
Vintage 1960s Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage 1970s Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage 1980s Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage 1970s Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage 1970s Italian Art Nouveau Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage 1970s Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage 1910s Unknown Art Nouveau Figurative Sculptures
Marble, Bronze, Silver Plate
Vintage 1970s Italian Art Nouveau Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Gold, Enamel, Sterling Silver, Gold Plate
Vintage 1970s Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes
Sterling Silver
Vintage 1960s Italian Art Nouveau Decorative Boxes
Crystal, Gold Plate, Sterling Silver
Vintage 1980s Italian Art Nouveau Cigar Boxes and Humidors
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage 1970s Italian Art Nouveau Bottles
Gold Plate, Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage 1980s Italian Art Nouveau Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage 1960s Italian Art Nouveau Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage 1970s Italian Art Nouveau Snuff Boxes and Tobacco Boxes
Sterling Silver, Enamel
Vintage 1970s Italian Art Nouveau Candelabras
Sterling Silver, Enamel
20th Century French Art Nouveau Table Mirrors
Silver Plate
Antique Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Collectible Jewelry
Silver Plate, Brass, Bronze
Vintage 1930s Art Nouveau Candlesticks
Silver Plate
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A Close Look at Art Nouveau Furniture
In its sinuous lines and flamboyant curves inspired by the natural world, antique Art Nouveau furniture reflects a desire for freedom from the stuffy social and artistic strictures of the Victorian era. The Art Nouveau movement developed in the decorative arts in France and Britain in the early 1880s and quickly became a dominant aesthetic style in Western Europe and the United States.
ORIGINS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN
- Emerged during the late 19th century
- Popularity of this modernizing style declined in the early 20th century
- Originated in France and Britain but variants materialized elsewhere
- Informed by Rococo, Pre-Raphaelite art, Japanese art (and Japonisme), Arts and Crafts; influenced modernism, Bauhaus
CHARACTERISTICS OF ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGN
- Sinuous, organic and flowing lines
- Forms that mimic flowers and plant life
- Decorative inlays and ornate carvings of natural-world motifs such as insects and animals
- Use of hardwoods such as oak, mahogany and rosewood
ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
ANTIQUE ART NOUVEAU FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
Art Nouveau — which spanned furniture, architecture, jewelry and graphic design — can be easily identified by its lush, flowing forms suggested by flowers and plants, as well as the lissome tendrils of sea life. Although Art Deco and Art Nouveau were both in the forefront of turn-of-the-20th-century design, they are very different styles — Art Deco is marked by bold, geometric shapes while Art Nouveau incorporates dreamlike, floral motifs. The latter’s signature motif is the "whiplash" curve — a deep, narrow, dynamic parabola that appears as an element in everything from chair arms to cabinetry and mirror frames.
The visual vocabulary of Art Nouveau was particularly influenced by the soft colors and abstract images of nature seen in Japanese art prints, which arrived in large numbers in the West after open trade was forced upon Japan in the 1860s. Impressionist artists were moved by the artistic tradition of Japanese woodblock printmaking, and Japonisme — a term used to describe the appetite for Japanese art and culture in Europe at the time — greatly informed Art Nouveau.
The Art Nouveau style quickly reached a wide audience in Europe via advertising posters, book covers, illustrations and other work by such artists as Aubrey Beardsley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Alphonse Mucha. While all Art Nouveau designs share common formal elements, different countries and regions produced their own variants.
In Scotland, the architect Charles Rennie Mackintosh developed a singular, restrained look based on scale rather than ornament; a style best known from his narrow chairs with exceedingly tall backs, designed for Glasgow tea rooms. Meanwhile in France, Hector Guimard — whose iconic 1896 entry arches for the Paris Metro are still in use — and Louis Majorelle produced chairs, desks, bed frames and cabinets with sweeping lines and rich veneers.
The Art Nouveau movement was known as Jugendstil ("Youth Style") in Germany, and in Austria the designers of the Vienna Secession group — notably Koloman Moser, Josef Hoffmann and Joseph Maria Olbrich — produced a relatively austere iteration of the Art Nouveau style, which mixed curving and geometric elements.
Art Nouveau revitalized all of the applied arts. Ceramists such as Ernest Chaplet and Edmond Lachenal created new forms covered in novel and rediscovered glazes that produced thick, foam-like finishes. Bold vases, bowls and lighting designs in acid-etched and marquetry cameo glass by Émile Gallé and the Daum Freres appeared in France, while in New York the glass workshop-cum-laboratory of Louis Comfort Tiffany — the core of what eventually became a multimedia decorative-arts manufactory called Tiffany Studios — brought out buoyant pieces in opalescent favrile glass.
Jewelry design was revolutionized, as settings, for the first time, were emphasized as much as, or more than, gemstones. A favorite Art Nouveau jewelry motif was insects (think of Tiffany, in his famed Dragonflies glass lampshade).
Like a mayfly, Art Nouveau was short-lived. The sensuous, languorous style fell out of favor early in the 20th century, deemed perhaps too light and insubstantial for European tastes in the aftermath of World War I. But as the designs on 1stDibs demonstrate, Art Nouveau retains its power to fascinate and seduce.
There are ways to tastefully integrate a touch of Art Nouveau into even the most modern interior — browse an extraordinary collection of original antique Art Nouveau furniture on 1stDibs, which includes decorative objects, seating, tables, garden elements and more.