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The Victorian Era ends
From 1600-1800; ended in the 19th century when the Art and Crafts Movement began. Known for its rich fabrics, voluminous drapes, lush upholstery, detailed woodwork, and rugs, the Design Reform Movement was started as a direct objection to this aesthetic. -
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Design Reform Begins: Arts and Crafts Aesthetic Movement
Beginning stages of the Arts and Crafts movement lead by Wiliam Morris. -
The Great Exposition of 1851
Orchestrated by one the detractors of the design reform movement Henry Cole. saw the exposition as a way for various countries to share design ideas. -
Design Reform and Ruskin
Joh Ruskin helped spearhead the design reform movement and helped imprint an idealized vison of arts and crafts for generation to follow. He was the idea man while Morris was the creative voice of the movement. -
Design Reform and Wiliam Morris
Started as a reaction to the Indsutrial Revolution, leaders of the movement like Wiliam Morris and John Ruskin, favored hand carfted construction over the ever increasing use of machine. moving awys for the ormatre decxoraion of the vcitorian era, the designs were more simple. -
Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright is known to be a pioneer of modern design, a movement through which his work influenced American architecture and design and can be seen across the world till today. -
Design Reform and Christpher Dresser
Christopher Dresser, although part of the early stages of design reform, was more in favor of working with machines than his counterpart like Morris, and is therefore known as the first industrial designer. -
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Art Nouveau
Meaning " new art, in French Art Nouveau was based on a new vitality and strived to effect moods. It focuses heavily on florals and curved lines. -
Art Nouveau
Design concepts from this era used intricate details and unique shapes. The colors used tended to be soft and muted, with a focus on natural hues. -
Frank Lloyd Wright
One of the most notable designers of the design reform movement, Wright started his design firm in 1893. -
Frank Lloyd Wright
Primarily known for his architectural influence, Wright was also a very prominent furniture designer and artist. -
Louis C. Tiffany
Famous for his stained glass and lamps in the Art Deco and Art Nouveau style. The glass which helped Tiffany get famous is called 'Favrile glass' which is a combination of normal opal white glass and clear 'antique' colored glass. -
Art Nouveau and Charles Rohlf
Charles Rohlf used inventive forms and imaginative carvings that combined many influences, from the abstract naturalism of Art Nouveau to the bold forms of the Arts and Crafts movement. This chair is decorated with boldly pierced and curving boards that create dynamic sculptural silhouettes when viewed from different angles. -
Art Nouveau And Henry Van de Velde
Known as one of the fathers of Art Nouveau,
Van de Velde’s furniture features gently curving lines and ornament expressed through structure, lending each piece an organic quality that was central to art nouveau. -
Art Nouveau and Hector Guimard
Influenced by the patterns of Gothic art and a call to nature from early Art Nouveau, Guimard found inspiration in the structure of plants. His constructed the body of the furniture, with vertical, organic curves. The asymmetrically way he designed furniture, made his pieces look like plant sculptures. -
Early Modernism
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Early Modernism
Started the interior design style characterized by a monochromatic color palette, clean lines, minimalism, natural materials, and natural light. It refers specifically to a historical aesthetic movement that took place during the early to mid-twentieth century. -
Wiener Werstatte
One of the longest-lived design movements of the twentieth century and a key organization for the development of modernism. Was a bridge between traditional methods of manufacturing and a distinctly avant-garde aesthetic -
Early Modernism
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Wiener Werstatte and Josef Hoffman
As a founder of the movement, Hoffman sought to embrace complete artistic freedom which resulted in a prodigious output of designs. the school as created a legion of skilled craftsmen, and a complex network of production and distribution that would become standard. -
German Werkbund
The Deutscher Werkbund was an incredibly important and influential movement; the idea that architects and designers could be part of mass production and industrial design. -
Early Modernism
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Elsie De Wolfe: 1st interior decorator
Elsie de Wolfe became the first Interior Decorator to be given a design “commission.” In 1913, Elsie de Wolfe published the first interior design book, “The House in Good Taste.” -
Henry Ford's Model T and the Assembly Line
The assembly line favorer changed the face of production in the west by making the mass production of goods a possibility. The idea was very influential to design as a way to increase speed and efficiency. -
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World War I
Industrial mechanization and commercial expansion dramatically changed the American landscape. Massive skyscrapers and factories grew and multiplied, dominating a seemingly once limitless horizon. As in Europe, this new environment produced a strong effect on the arts. -
Bauhaus School
Bauhaus design style utilized materials that were new and revolutionary for the time (most furniture in the 1920s was made of wood) – tubular steel, glass, plywood and plastic, for instance. -
Bauhaus School
Bauhaus designs are defined by a lack of ornament, the use of clean lines, smooth surfaces and geometric shapes. -
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Bauhaus School
Merged all artistic mediums into one unified approach. Focused on the combination of an individual's artistry with mass production and function. Bauhaus design is often abstract, angular, and geometric, with little ornamentation. -
European Art Deco and The Epstein Bros
Primary material was stained walnut, which featured mahogany, sycamore, and violet wood veneers. They also had included finishing of pony skins, oriental silk, snakeskin, and other animal hides. Things like Japanese lacquer were used to create, which gave the furniture a hard, shiny, tactile finish. The furniture featured geometrical shapes adn favored symmetry. -
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European Art Deco
Art deco is characterized by a huge variation in styles from 1920s zigzags, sunbursts and geometrical shapes to the streamlined chrome, neon and concrete of the 1930s.. -
King Tut Discovery
Inspired designers to incorporate exotic elements to their products using Egyptian, African and Asian art and techniques as the primary sources of inspiration. -
Dorothy Draper: First Design Firm
Dorothy Draper was the first documented commercial Interior Decorator, establishing her design firm in 1923. -
European Art Deco
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Great Exposition of 1925
The 1925 international exhibition was held in Paris, which was the center of the contemporary arts world and was supposed to help re‐establish French decorative arts, fashion, and luxury goods at the forefront of international developments in the arts. -
Bauhaus School and Walter Gropius
Characterized by clean lines, simple, useful shapes with little or no decoration, primary colors, and rational use of modern materials such as glass, concrete, and steel. -
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The Great Depression
Modernist designers developed products and lifestyle concepts intended for middle-class, not elite, consumers. Material and money were limited, and all forms of modern design was mostly put on hold. -
European Art Deco
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American Art Deco
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American Art Deco
Example of American Art Deco interior design look -
Empire State Building
With its high level of ornamentation, metallic colors, zigzags, and other dramatic shapes the Empire
State Building is a shining example of the Art deco aesthetic. -
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American Art Deco
Art Deco style is symmetrical, geometric, streamlined, often simple, and pleasing to the eye. It used rich colors, bold geometry, and decadent detail work. The style brings in a sense of glamour, luxury, and order with symmetrical designs in exuberant shapes. -
American Art Deco
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European Art Deco
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Art Moderne and Streamlining Design
Art Moderne design, sometimes referred to as Streamlined Moderne, was a design style that emerged during the 1930s. The style emphasized curving forms, long horizontal lines, rounded corners, with little to no ornamentation. -
PostWar/Organic Mid Century Modernism
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Postwar/Organic Mid-Century Modernism
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PostWar/Organic Mid Century Modernism
1930s Post War interior design look -
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PostWar/Organic Mid Century Modernism
Post War Modernism focused on abstract and sculptural aesthetics combined with a lower price for mass-produced objects defined a post-war era of design. The movement emphasized functionality above all, using minimalism to respect post-war rationing and new beginnings. -
Machine Art
New York's Museum of Modern Art staged a major exhibition of ball bearings, airplane propellers, pots and pans, cocktail tumblers, petri dishes, protractors, and other machine parts and products. -
Modernism
Modernism put an emphasis on experimentation, and rejected any idea of predetermined “rules,”. Designer from the movement embraced the freedom of expression in art, literature, architecture, and music. -
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Modernism
Modernism promoted sleek, clean lines and eliminated decorative additions that were purely for the sake of embellishment. -
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World War II
New materials and technologies, many of which had been developed during wartime, helped to free design from tradition, allowing for increasingly abstract and sculptural aesthetics as well as lower prices for mass-produced objects. -
American Art Deco
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The World's Fair
The aesthetic of the fair centered around pulp science fiction, huge geometric shapes, sweeping curves, plenty of glass and chromium, and gleaming white walls. Seen as the last grand display of the streamlined Modern style of Art Deco, the fair was also heavily influenced by the emerging International Style -
Modernism
Modern design is an interior design style characterized by a monochromatic color palette, clean lines, minimalism, natural materials, and natural light. -
Pop Art and Hybrid Styles
Minimalist Pop Art interior design blended contemporary minimalist and pop art styles. Contemporary living room furnishings and colorful accent wall design were combined to create modern distinction within the movement -
Pop Art
Pop art furniture brings that special whiff of fresh air and energy into the room and spark a conversation or two. The basics of Pop Art are the use of “irrelevant” materials, a great visual effect, and the unconventional personality of the artworks created in this manner -
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Pop Art
Includes everyday imagery by merging of fine art with popular culture. Was seen as a criticism of consumerism.
Known for its use of bold colors, the use of pulp culture, humor, appropriation, repetition, monumental imagery, and regional differences. -
Pop Art and Andy Warhol
Credited as the original Pop Artist, Warhols unique style was the perfect blend of commercial and freethinking art. He drew inspiration from popular and commercial culture in the western world. The style began as a rebellion against traditional forms of art. -
Pop Art
Pop art furniture brings that special whiff of fresh air and energy into the room and spark a conversation or two. The use of “irrelevant” materials and the unconventional personality of the artworks had a great visual effect. There was no creative limit to Pop Art furniture. It is witty, geometric, brightly colored, and – made with cheap materials -
Man on the Moon
The moon landing influenced all aspects of society including modern design and architecture. Inspired by the new emerging space exploration the world was engulfed it, designers begin to create futurist, space-inspired style for consumers. -
Post Modernism
This Italian designed aluminum Boomerang table exemplifies the aesthetics of the Post modernist movement -
Post Modernism
Postmodern art is a broad art movement comprising several new forms and artistic styles, including pop art, conceptual art, collage, installation art, video art, neo-Expressionism, appropriation, feminist art, and performance art. -
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Post Modernism
Postmodernism is an eclectic, colorful style of design and that emerged in the 1970s and continues in some form today. It started as a reaction to Modernism and the Modern Movement, and the dogmas associated with it. -
Post Modernism
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Memphis Group
The totemic Carlton, which Sottsass created in 1981, is his most identifiable furniture design. It reads as a bookcase, a room divider and a dresser, depending on who you ask. -
Memphis Group
The "Tahiti Lamp" is typical for the Memphis group, which opposed the strict rules of modernism and used bright colors and patterns, inspired by pop art. -
Memphis Group
Memphis Group is one of the most instantly recognizable design styles and blends art deco with pop art. -
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Memphis Group
Fueled by influences from earlier movements such as Pop Art and Art Deco, Memphis design favored simple geometric shapes, flat colors combined in bold, contrasting palettes, and stylized graphic patterns defined by black-and-white stripes and abstract squiggles. -
Memphis Group
The use of conventionally ‘bad-taste’ plastic laminate and clashing colors challenged the widely accepted design standards of the time. -
Post Modernism in the 1990s
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Post Modernism in the 2000s
This interior design trend was called Shabby Chic, where modern met vintage, and people made more environmentally conscious design choices. During this decade, fashion and home living united for the first time. The apartment on Friends, was a great example of this. -
Post Modernism in the 21st century
Shiplap, exposed beams, barns doors, and farmhouse sinks were some of the top interior design elements in the 2010s. This all stemmed from the popular modern farmhouse decor style. This style introduced cozy and warm spaces that created a welcoming environment with hints of mid-century elements. -
Post Modernism in the 21st century
The 2020s will see a fundamental shift in interior design. The white-on-white interiors, cool greys and pastel pinks will be replaced by earthy, warm tones and playful color-pops. Mid-Century Modern furniture will be swapped for 70s and 80s glamour pieces.
