Art Deco Interior Design Chairs

By 1930 art deco furniture had reached the usa and stores were filling with a more modernist style of furniture with a streamlined look.

Art deco interior design chairs.

Like art deco art nouveau is an ornamental style applied to such media as architecture interior design jewelry and illustration. In the family room of a houston residence by miles redd a louis xv style sofa is upholstered in a larsen linen and an art deco club chair acquired at doyle new york is cushioned with the same. It quickly spread all over the world where it found use. Both styles were popular in europe and the united states but art nouveau flourished earlier between 1890 and 1910.

Encompassing all arts and crafts disciplines the art deco style could be found in fine art as well as interior design furniture fashion jewellery textiles and architecture. Art deco sometimes referred to as deco is a style of visual arts architecture and design that first appeared in france just before world war i. The art deco period was very popular in america and europe in the 1920s and 1930s a stark contrast to the more minimalist nature inspired art nouveau that preceded it. Art deco influenced the design of buildings furniture jewelry fashion cars movie theatres trains ocean liners and everyday objects such as radios and vacuum cleaners.

Art deco reached its height in the late 1920s and early 30s. Donald deskey who designed the interior of radio city hall created hundreds of accessible furniture designs for department stores which made their way into the homes of ordinary people. Art deco an art and design style popular in the 1920s and 1930s began in paris as a result of a large decorative arts exhibition in 1925. Since art nouveau s big theme was using the natural world in its designs nature elements the curvy lines of flowers and women art deco was pushback against this.

Art deco was inspired by the advances in modern technology of the 1920s which can be seen in the smooth lines geometric shapes and streamlines forms that are. A fine art deco rosewood and yellow damask arm chair likely french circa 1935 unmarked item 712ywb08p of a highly refined design with influences of ruhlmann evident in the development of the legs this art deco arm chair is designed to be a perfect desk chair. Like art nouveau art deco affected all areas of the decorative arts and was considered very glamorous elegant functional and modern it quickly became a popular style of interior decorating as well as making its influence.