New Ideas New Design - Modernism Art Moderne 1909 Ballet Russe - Paris, France Costumes by Serge Diaghilev Fabulous color, pattern Audiences astonished www.staff.dmu.ac.uk/~jafowler/russes.html
Diaghilev Costumes http://costumeinstitute.org/diaghile.htm
Picasso Set Design for Diaghilev In 1917, Picasso did the set and costume design for Serge Diaghilev's ballet "Parade." http://transplutonia.blogspot.com/2004_11_01_archive.html
www.erte.com/ Erté Romain de Tirtoff Fashion, costume Sculptures www.erte.com/images/costume%20designs/womanwithwings.jpg www.erte.com/images/costume%20designs/latosca2.jpg Costume design - Ganna Walska as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro, Act II, Chicago Opera Company, 1923, Gouache Costume design for the Diamond in Les Pierres Précieuses, Folies- Bergère, Paris, 1923 Russian-born painter Romain de Tirtoff called himself Erté after the French pronunciation of his initials. He was one of the foremost fashion and stage designers of the early 20th century.
Current Retail Price: $19,500 Erte Sculptures www.artbrokerage.com/images/erte/ erte_byzantinesculpture.jp Byzantine Sculpture Erte 1988 Bronze 20" Inches High
1920s Art Deco Style Restrained Against Nouveau excess Inspiration Classic style, clean lines Geometric, Aztec, African Rare, expensive materials www.maisongerard.com/ Handcrafted, surface enrichment
1930 s Art Deco Style = Streamlined Deco Machine style Modern materials Steel, glass Pittsburgh Plate Glass Chair - curved plate-glass form upholstered seat 1920s Compare 1930s
Art Deco Characteristics Sweeping Curves
Rich Woods www.james-gentry.com/decofull.jpg
Classic Influence ca 1925 www.maisongerard.com/
Elegant Hardware Ca 1935, France www.habite.com/tryinvset.htm
Exotic Expensive Materials www.valerioartdeco.com/ images/leleurug_s.jpg Shagreen Shark skin Rosewood and shagreen bar by J. Leleu. France. Circa: 1940
Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann 1879-1933 Art Deco interiors, furniture Classic, elegant Expensive $$ Rich materials Ebony Rich inlay Mother of Pearl Ivory
Ruhlmann Often features sweeping curves But reflects cubism too Always sophisticated Maharaja Sofa
Ruhlmann
Ruhlmann - "État" Cabinet, 1926 Inlay
Ruhlmann "Doucet" 1913- Macassar Ebony & Ivory http://www.tribu-design.com
Ruhlmann designed draperies, wallpaper, textiles, lamps and rugs. The sensation created by his Hôtel du Collectionneur at the Exposition internationale des Arts décoratifs et industriels modernes in Paris in 1925 brought him fame and helped establish the Art Deco style. Ruhlmann Hôtel du Collectionneur, 1925
Hôtel du Collectionneur, 1925
Rhulmann www.artdecosource.com Chiffonier, 1923
Inlay "Chariot" Sideboard, ca. 1921 http://www.metmuseum.org/special/ruhlmann/art_deco_images.htm
The Vanity or Dressing Table "Colonette" Dressing Table ca. 1919 20 Amboyna, ivory, ebony, silvered bronze, silk, glass; Collection of Steven A. Greenberg www.ruhlmann.info
The Vanity 'Lotus' dressing table Dressing Table Typical - large mirror ca. 1925
Majorelle Art Deco www.antiques-world.com/auctions/dvc/zooms/zavril2001025.jpg
Maurice Dufrene
Dufrene www.calderwoodgallery.com/enlarge3/ 3105s-dufrenechairpr.jpg
American Art Deco ca 1920-1940 Terms: Art Moderne or Jazz Moderne Time frame = 2 decades: 1920s = Post WWI - Residential 1930s = Depression Era - Commercial
1920s Social Revolution Prohibition Jazz music - Jazz Age College life Click here for a video on the Youth rebellion Night Clubs The flapper
Curves and Cubes
Skyscraper Bookcase Paul Frankl 1928
Mackintosh Clock ca 1919 www.qdesign.co.nz/ images/deskey.jpg
Eileen Gray 1878-1976 Classic designs in lacquer Gray worked out of her own studio on the Rue du Faubourg Ste.-Honore in Paris, designing textiles, screens, and store interiors, as well as practicing architecture.
Lacquer Screen www.io.tudelft.nl/public/ vdm/fda/gray/gray15.jpg
Eileen Gray www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/ mason/images/mason9-22-7.jp
Eileen Gray Designs in Lacquer 1915 www.io.tudelft.nl/public/ vdm/fda/gray/gray15.jpg
Eileen Gray Serpent chair, 1912, France
Eileen Gray www.designmuseum.org
Eileen Gray 1912 Serpent chair $28 million in 2009
Jean-Michel Frank Parsons Table, 1920, France
Designer Syrie Maugham White Room 1929-30 www.designmuseum.org
African Influence "Ashanti" stool
Art Deco Interior
Paul Iribe Iribe worked for Cecil B. DeMille and other Hollywood producers during the 1920s as a set designer. Armchair, 1913, France
Pierre-Emile Legrain 1889-1929 African influence www.artnet.com After attending design school Pierre Legrain studied with Paul Iribe and later collaborated with him.
Pierre- Emile Legrain
Pierre Legrain Chaise Lounge, 1925, France
Pierre www.nmafa.si.edu/exhibits/ legrain/art/lchfull.gif Legrain www.artnet.com
Pierre-Emile Legrain www.franceantiq.fr/biennale/default.htm
Edgar Brandt Wrought metal A leading master of iron work in the 20th century, Edgar Brandt (1880-1960) revolutionized welding technology. He brought about an artistic combination of iron with bronze and steel, plated with gold and silver. http://www.xs4all.nl/~kwanten/brandt1.gif
1925
Waterfall Design www.artnet.com/magazine/features/ mason/mason6-23-1.asp Brandt L Oasis - 1924 Sold for $1,876,000 in 2006
In addition to private commissions and luxury items for homes, the Brandt atelier created ironwork for many important large-scale projects: gates, doors, tables and other objects, including the famous screen L Oasis, for the 1925 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs et Industrials Modernes in Paris
1929 Stock Market Crash
1930s - The Great Depression Crash of 1929 Dirty Thirties - Dust Bowl www.avdiscovery.com/edvideos/ images/depression.jpg www.albany.edu/projren/1997_98/student_projects/muse um/history/before/depress.jpg
Streamlined Deco - 1930s U.S. Less personal wealth Design shift : public sector, mass production ships, trains, ads skyscrapers, theaters, diners, motels - Miami Deco http://crossing.railfan.net/nelinks.html
Streamlined Deco Celebrates speed, modernism Machines for the future Horizontal & parallel lines "Zephyr" Digital Clock Model No. 304-P40, 1934, lacquered copper, chrome-plated brass, and plastic. By Kem Weber (German-American designer, 1889-1963), This streamlined object is both elegant and utilitarian. Kem Weber said his approach to design was "to make the practical more beautiful and the beautiful more practical." www.whitney.artmuseum.net/images_art 34_04e.weber.jpg
Modern Life Auto travel - motels, national parks Airplane travel Rocket experiments Flash Gordon - outer space Costume party at the San Marcos Hotel, Chandler - 1930s
Miami Deco Click the link above to see more Deco architecture
Palatial Exotic temples - Mayan, Aztec Movie Theaters
Movie Theaters Orpheum Theater - Phoenix http://flickr.com/photos/coppersquare/265435736/ January 5, 1929 w.sxc.hu/photo/975538 acmeron.com/puhs/12orpheum.jpg www.flickr.com/photos/sminor/3147323653/
Radio City Music Hall
Club Chairs www.habite.com/tryinvset.htm
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