Paul D'Amico - Period Design Julia I compliment you for your article on Art Nouveau. In a few words you convey this sensuous style that sourced its inspiration from Nature. Art Nouveau Is my favourite Movement in Design and your photo selection will hopefully encourage people to use it in their renovation / redecoration plans.

Julia Pockett Thank you Period Design. What I love about doing these period articles is the new inspiration I get each time I re-visit an era. I agree, the Art Nouveau movement was indeed a 'sensuous' one - just so beautiful and, just from trying to source images, one that we often tragically neglect! Personally, I am so in love with the Klimt bathroom that I'm having dreams about it!

Paintings by Kirsten Elizabeth Gilmore I would encourage people with eclectic tastes to blend decor in this style with more modern furnishings or art for a contemporary look (like you did in the last photo.) As an abstract painter and landscape painter, I often take design inspiration from the beautiful, sinuous lines and self-repeating patterns of art nouveau without stealing their designs.

Paul D'Amico - Period Design You are right Julia: sourcing images is important and even more so to organise them and place them in a logic. It's time consuming and that's maybe why just downloading picks is sometimes preferred. I have been dreaming about a Klimt bathroom for sometime now and the one in this discussion is new to me. This tiles work very well because it's more than just a picture it creates a whole environment. It successfully puts together two very different aesthetics - the Vienna Secession and contemporary style. That is helpful because there are only so many period elements to be found in reclamation yards and thus one needs to mix which is the point Kirsten is making.

Jean Corey Love the Lalique sink taps. Wish they weren't so pricey.

Casart Coverings I'm really enjoying your progressive design period ideabooks, Julia. Will the next one be Arts and Crafts (which I believe began in the British Isles) with some William Morris illustrations? Or will you move on to Art Deco? Art Nouveau, Arts and Crafts and Art Deco seem to overlap and it's sometimes difficult to distinguish between them; especially Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts. Is there an easy way to compare and distinguish the styles?

bubblyjock Big fan of art nouveau here! Especially Charles Rennie Mackintosh and his wife Margaret, and her sister Frances. IMO their work is gentler, more ethereal, than the cold distillation of Klimpt et al. Plus CRM's furniture, cutlery - you name it, he did it - is all faaaabulous.

One question - is that ceiling really trompe l'oeil, though? Isn't it either plasterwork or anaglypta? Just curious, really.

Reflections Interior Designs Thank you Julia for featuring my design work in your informative article (2nd photo showing the large Tiffany glass light fixture). That home I redesigned, was originally built in 1908 and through the extensive renovation I tried to keep the style suitable to the original Art Nouveau period.
Brilliant article!

Jil Sonia McDonald - Reflections Interior Designs
www.ReflectionsInteriorDesigns.com

Julia Pockett Reflections Interior Designs - thank you for your kind comment and you are welcome - a gorgeous hall and perfect light! Julia

Julia Pockett catrionacatriona - I think it is but couldn't be 100%. It is described as trompe l'oeil by Ricky Sauls Decorative Painting? Anyway, it is beautiful and most definitely Art Nouveau. :-), Julia

Julia Pockett Casart Coverings – thank you so much for your kind comments. Infact, Arts and Crafts was the week before and I am currently working on Art Deco – this keeps them in chronological order. There’s not enough space (or time) here to cover the differences between them but each successive period took some influence from the previous so they often seem to merge. Arts & Crafts was first and took some of its influence from medieval Gothic. Designers in this period believed handcrafted was best and they rejected the mass production and industrial techniques which emerged in Victorian times (hence you see a lot of wood paneling and handcrafted wooden furniture). Inspiration came from flora & fauna – the natural world. Think William Morris and it sums it up!
Mackintosh began in Arts & Crafts but moved on to Art Nouveau, preferring the freedom and inventiveness. By this I mean Art Nouveau embraced new production techniques with materials such as glass and iron so you see a lot more of those used in Art Nouveau designs. Whilst they still took inspiration from nature, the designs became much more fluid and sweeping – think of the ‘s’ curve to sum it up.
Art Deco came post World War 1 with many of the designers making the transition from the Art Nouveau movement. It can be clearly differentiated as designs were more modern, sharply angled, cubistic forms – lots of zig zag shapes, lots of high gloss from aluminum, black laquer, glass and mirrors.

Difficult to keep it short but hope that helps ☺
Julia (off to work on Art Deco!)

Casart Coverings Thanks Julia. How could I have missed the Arts and Crafts ideabook?! Just read it. Being in the wallcovering business we,of course, are familiar with William Morris the man and the company and have posted several blog entries about both. Here is a link to an early one. http://www.casartcoverings.com/casartblog/wallcovering-and-paint-contrast-or-compliment-for-coexistence/ I'm really looking forward to your Art Deco installment, which is one of my favorite periods.

sclawson Love the Klimt tiles and how the complete image is shown on one wall and then broken up on the other wall. Is $450 for one set of tiles that show the total image? if so, surprisingly affordable.