NATURE IN ART NOUVEAU

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Giovanni Renzi
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35,00 €
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In an age when machines and industrialisation had vigorously entered the life of European
society, a need was felt to find different, modern models,which were suitable for the new
daily life. Once again, nature was taken as a model and symbol. Many books have
already highlighted that this new style, which was applied to all the decorative arts, had
many schools and names in different countries: art nouveau, stile floreal (floral style), liberty,
jugendstil, modern style and many others. However, all had a common denominator:
managing to reproduce nature in its infinite beauty, flowing, rounded lines regardless of the
material used as well as its uniqueness, despite thefact that things were produced in series
by modern machines. The magnificence of this style is not in the high points achieved by
Henry van de Velde or some other artistic genius of the time, but rather in the boundless
anonymous productions – in most cases – or of enlightened societies that used creative
geniuses who were mostly unknown. There is cutlery, door handles, lamps, vases, tins,
posters, books, furniture, everyday objects which fix nature in its greatest splendour. The
new technologies allow the use of any material: metal or plaster, wood or glass. Life in the
late nineteenth century was ‘invaded’ by floral designs, both in public places and at home.
It is the material used that marks the chapters of this book, showing new details of the
perfection of the art nouveau style. Nature in paper, tin, metal, iron, glass, ceramic, wood
flowers, cutlery and tableware: the decorations of the early twentieth century of modern
furniture,the WMF, French producers: Gallè and Daum; the Austrian producer: Loetz, the
Mackintosh School, The English Rose, The Italian School: Mazzuccotelli, the European Art
Nouveau reviews: Jugend and the first illustrations by Koloman Moser.
Giovanni Renzi, an architect who graduated from the Milan Polythecnic, is recognised as
one of the greatest experts and scholars of curved beech furniture. He has written many
publications dedicated to Thonet and, since 2002, he is the history consultant of the Vienna
based company Gebrüder Thonet.
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