furniture - art deco
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ART DECOPriyaGan Jiae LingYew Jing Hui
WHAT IS ART DECO?
A popular and international art movement during the 20's and 30's.
Affected all "decorative arts",including architecture,interior design,industrial design as well as visual arts such as fashion,painting,graphic arts and film.
The name came from the 1925 Exposition international des art decoratifs industrials modern,held in Paris which celebrated living in the modern world.
FURNITURE
Decoration was integral part of art deco.
Beauty in home was essential to mans psychological well being.
Ebony ,mahogany , violetwood, maple , ash.
Are deco was famous due to its long lasting furnitures made in that era that still can be seen.
• FRANK T PAUL (1882-1957) )
• Paul T. Frankl (October 14, 1886 – March 21, 1958), an Art Deco furniture designer and maker, architect, painter and writer.
• Frankl began as an architect and later switched to designing and painting fine art and furniture. In the years between the two world wars he, more than any other designer, helped shape the distinctive look of American modernism.
• Frankl opened Frankl Galleries on 48th Street, calling his company Skyscraper Furniture.
EMILE RUHLMANN (1879-1933)
• A renowned French designer of furniture and interiors, epitomising for many the glamour of the French Art Deco style of the 1920s.
• In 1919 Ruhlmann founded, with Pierre Laurent, the company Ruhlmann et Laurent, specializing in interior design and producing luxury home goods that included furniture, wallpaper and lighting.
• Ruhlmann was making formal elegant furniture using precious and exotic woods in combination with ivory fittings, giving them a classic, timeless appeal.
PUZZLE DESK
• designed by Paul Frankl
• Modern-style furniture was first designed in the 1920s but did not become "mainstream" until the 1950s.
• The Puzzle desk was like a box. Desks were made of painted wood, with silver-leafed pine drawers and chromium-plated metal trim in art deco patterns. The drawers were of random shapes and sizes, and because of the shiny, silver finish against the dark background, they created interesting patterns. There were drawers and shelves on all sides.
SKYSCRAPER
• Designed by Paul Frankl
• The first piece is a copy of the Skyscraper Step Table made by Frankl in the late 1920s and currently in the Decorative Arts collection at the Brooklyn Museum.
• The piece is made from painted poplar and the joinery is dowels.
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