Download - European Decorative Arts: 1850-1920
BGC Survey Course
European Decorative Arts
1850-1920
Paul StirtonSpring 2015
The Crystal Palace, designed by Joseph Paxton 1851
Views from a series of colored prints by James Simpson
Jennens & Bettridge (Birmingham)dining chair in papier-mâché, wood and mother of pearl 1850
Papier mache cake tray
jewelry, hand mirror and display cabinet in gutta percha
Electroplated metalwork by the English firm Elkington & Co.
Teapot 1853
Salver 1853
Wine cooler 1886
Casket designed and made by Alexandre Gueyton, 1851Silver inset with pearls and rubies.
Electrotype copy of Gueyton casket produced by Elkington & Co. 1856
Purchased at 1851 Exhibition for the South Kensington Museum: 'Notwithstanding the general form is too architectural for a work of ornament and many portions are out of scale: it may be studied with advantage, as a good example of surface decoration. The execution, also, is very perfect.’Copied in electroplate by Elkington & Co.
Electroplated table centerpiece for Napoleon III, by Christofle & Cie c.1857
Ciborium 1887
Bourgeois consumer goods designed by A-E Carrier-Belleuse: Clock in ‘imitation bronze’, 1867 : Ceramic pot stand for Sevres, 1876
Chair 1840 No. 14 Chair 1859 Armchair 1859
Thonet bentwood furniture
Metalwork at the Great Exhibition as reported in the Art Journal –“a plethora of flamboyant shapes reminiscent of a Baroque palace”
Coalbrookdale Fruit dish by Schinkel, 1820 but produced through the 1870s
Cast Iron Bench 1860s Christopher Dresser Coat stand, 1880
Henry Cole, ‘Summerly’ tea service produced by Minton’s 1847
Richard Redgrave ‘Well Spring’ carafe 1847
Owen Jones: The Grammar of Ornament, 1856
The South Kensington Museum and education galleries at the “Brompton Boilers” 1853
The South Kensington Museum opened 1857, renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum 1899
‘False Principles’ (27 and 31)
Imitation of nature and imitation of architecture
English printed furniture fabrics c.1850
“False Principles” of natural form vs stylization and flat patternWallpaper design by Owen Jones
Pugin Floriated Ornament
flattening the basic structure of plants
Strawberry Hill by Horace Walpole begun 1752 (left)
Fonthill Abbey by James Wyatt
1796-1813
Palace of Westminster by Charles Barry and A. W. N. Pugin 1834-68
House of Lords interior
Peer’s lobby and Robing Room
A W N Pugin Contrasts 1836
The Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume 1844
St Giles, Cheadle 1842
A W N Pugin, Oak table 1852
‘Antique furniture is particularly appropriate here, more so than in any other part of the house’ (Kerr 1864)
The Antiquarian hall
Sir Walter Scott’s Abbotsford
Connecting with national history
A W N Pugin 1851 Medieval Court
1848 wallpaper from the Houses of Parliament
1845 Cheadle tiles
Armoire from the Medieval Court made by J.G. Crace
E.W. Godwin
William Burges
Decanter 1865
The Yatman Cabinet 1858
Chateau de Pierrefonds, Picardie, restored as a royal residence for Napoleon III
New urban buildings and church interior by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc
Viollet Le Duc, illustrations from Dictionnaire Raisonne Du Mobilier Francais 1858-70
Pink Room in the Chateau de Roquetaillade, below right 1850-70
Holy Oil flask
Angiolo Barbetti cabinet 1845 H-A. Fourdinois cabinet 1867
Renaissance Revival cabinet designed/carved by Maigret, Protat & Pasti, manufactured by firm of Henri-Auguste Fourdinois, c. 1867
Exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle, 1867
Jorge Colaço: ‘Azulejo’ tile murals at Palace of Buçaco, Portugal, in the Neo-Manueline style, 1888-1907
Adamastor 1907
Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro: revival of tin glazed tiles (Azulejos) from period of Manuel I (1495-1521)
Antoni Gaudi Drafting table 1878
Bench 1898
Gaudi furniture for Palau Guell c.1888
Moorish style ceramics by Edward Honoré 1844 and J-T. Deck 1862. The ‘Alhambresque’ style popularized by Owen Jones, Plans … of the Alhambra, of 1836
Bracquemond and Rousseau dinner service, 1866-75, faience, manufactured by Lebeuf-Millet et Cie, inspired by Hokusai’s Manga
Auguste Wilms, Jasmine Vase for Elkington, 1883
William Nesfield Screen with Japanese paper, 1867
Dresser: Tureen and ladle, Kettle and stand Hukin & Heath, 1880
Crow’s foot claret jug 1878
Letter stand 1881 Hukin & Heath
Toast-rack c 1880 James Dixon & Sons
Christopher Dresser
E. W. GODWIN Anglo-Japanese furniture, c.1873
‘CHEAP CHAIR’ resisting ‘swollen monstrosities’
E.W. Godwin, Anglo-Japanese sideboard c. 1867
J. M. Whistler The Peacock Room for F.R. Leyland 1877
Colour harmonies and wall divisions. Integrated scheme incorporating china and fine art. Small scale patterns. Contrasting textures. Anglo-Japanese cabinet. Fireplace blue & white tiles
Walter Crane, At Home, 1872 Frontispiece to Clarence Cook, The House Beautiful
Disseminating reform, C. L. EASTLAKE Hints on Household Taste first published 1868
Atkinson Grimshaw The Chorale 1873
Clock manufactured by Howell & James 1880 designer Lewis Day Decorator’s sample of Artistic wall
- breaks monotony of blank wall
Gourd
Christopher Dresser Linthorpe Art Pottery 1879-1882
Pre-Columbian Sea-urchin
William Morris and Edward Burne Jones at Red Lion Square, 1859
St George Cabinet, 1862
The Red House by William Morris and Philip Webb 1859
The Sussex chair designed 1860, based on an English vernacular chair type
The Green Dining Room at the South Kensington Museum by Morris, Marshall & Faulkner, 1866
Domestic interiors of Morris & Co designs; Kelmscott 1890 (below)
William Morris Virgin Annunciate stained glass, Selsey, 1862
William Morris drawing and Fruit wallpaper 1864
Acanthus 1879
Pink and Rose, 1890
Two early Morris textile designs:Tulip and Willow printed cotton 1873 (above)and Marigold furnishing fabric, 1875
Morris & Co. dyebook
Textile printing at Merton Abbey
Kennet printed cotton 1883
Woodpecker tapestry 1885
Holland Park carpet 1883
Morris giving a demonstration of weaving
Fust & Schoeffer Mainz Psalter 1457
Nicolas Jenson Plutarch’s Lives 1478
Emery Walker slide after Jenson 1889
The Kelmscott Chaucer, hand printed book, 1891-96
News From Nowhereand trial designs for Kelmscott Press typefaces and initial letters
National Romanticism
Hvittrask the studio house complex of Gesellius, Lindgren and Saarinen, near Helsinki, 1901-03
Eliel & Loja Saarinen’s studio house at Hvittrask
Lilla Hytnas (1888-1910) the studio house of Carl and Karin Larsson at Dalarna, northern Sweden
In the Corner (1894, above)
Papa’s Bedroom
Lazy Corner
Carl Larrson Ett Hem (A Home) 1899
Folk and vernacular inspired buildings by Victor Vasnetsov at the Mamontov Estate, Abramtsevo c.1880
Wall cabinet by Elena Polenova c. 1880
NATION AS PEASANT TEXTILES and NATIONAL IDENTITY in Hungary
1885 József Huszka szür embroidery
Ödön Lechner
Decorative Arts Museum, Budapest 1896
The Tulip Movement
POLITICISING THE CRAFTS
Paris 1900 : international style offensive
1900 Pál Horti cabinet design and pattern for teaching students
Vojtech Hynais Poster for Czecho-Slovak exhibition, Prague 1895
Dušan Jurkovič, Luhačovice Spa, Moravia
House under the Firs (Dom Pod Jedlami) Zakopane, 1896-7 for historian Jan Pawlikowski
The Zakopane Style in Poland
Villa Koliba dining room
Karol Tichy furniture made at Krakow 1908
Edward Trojanowski bookcase made in Krakow c1905
L’Art Nouveau Shop of Siegfried Bing opened in Paris in 1895
Vistor HortaHotel Tassell, 1893
Hector Guimard entrance ironwork for the Paris Metrobuilt for the Paris Exposition Universelle 1900
Art Nouveau Pavilion 1900
Furniture for a lady’s boudoir by Georges de Feure
Ceramic and Glass vessels by Emile Gallé Dragonfly Coupe 1903 : Carp vase 1878 : The Dark Men flask, 1900
Dining room, dress, and tableware by Henri van de Velde, as exhibited at the 3rd German Arts & Crafts Exhibition, Dresden. 1906
Interiors by Van de Velde: Smoking Room 1900; Cigar Shop 1899; Dining Room 1899
Parody of Van de Velde’s interior designs
Palais Stoclet designed by Josef Hoffman 1905-11
Chairs by Hoffman made by Thonet
The Café Fledermuas 1907
Cake stand, brooch, textile by Hoffman for the Wiener Werkstatte, c. 1908
Josef Hoffman interior and dress design, made by the Wiener Werkstätte c.1910
Adolf Loos: fireplace and shop interior c. 1910
Charles Rennie Mackintosh: designs for A House for an Art Lover 1901
C.R. Mackintosh and Margaret MacDonald, drawing room at Southpark Avenue, Glasgow, 1906
Dining room and bedroom at Southpark Avenue, c.1906
Mackintosh and MacDonald furniture and fittings
Houses and furniture by C.F.A. Voysey (1857-1941)
The Orchard 1899 Broad Leys 1898
Herman and Anna Muthesius at the Priory, 1900
Peter Behrens at the Darmstadt Kunstler kolonie 1901
Deutsche Werkbund exhibition, Cologne, 1914
Bruno Taut, Glass Pavilion
Cartoon of “The Typeform Debate,” 1914Chairs made by Van de Velde, Muthesius, and an artisan