Famous Art Deco Furniture Designers

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Famous art deco furniture designers.

émile jacques ruhlmann image credit. A few other countries had their art deco furniture designers which are now highly collectable. These are 16 of the biggest art deco style designers 4 10 influential figures in the arts and crafts movement 5 20 of the most influential. 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.

Art deco was an early twentieth century art and design style. Many scandinavian designers used pale curved plywood which was a new technique for the 1930s and was the beginning of a uniquely scandinavian furniture style. A prolific art deco designer dunand applied lacquer on a variety of objects and surfaces from vases and jewelry to panels furniture and even portraits. The brothers harry and lou epstein are two of europe s most distinguished art deco cabinet makers.

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. Follot worked at la maison moderne between 1901 and 1903. He became independent in 1904 designing furniture lighting carpets clocks and jewellery. The cabinet maker and furniture designer received the danish furniture prize in 1971 with andreas graversen ceo of furniture company fredericia.

In march 2019. Here are just some of the most famous art deco style designers you should know about. His designs are still influential today. It is functional and always modern looking even when we talk about the art pieces from the 1920s.

Famous for their exquisite avant garde designs and richly coloured veneers the pair took over their father s furniture workshop in east london in 1929 and immediately set about creating a range of innovative furniture that represented the best of art deco design in the early to mid 1930s. Art deco is tremendously versatile and can be applied to anything from architecture graphic arts and furniture design to sculpturing decoration and cinematic animations to name some. Paul follot art deco designer 1877 1941 like dufrene follot was part of the older generation of art deco designers who had developed their style from art nouveau. It quickly spread all over the world where it found use.

It took its name short for arts décoratifs from the exposition. Popular in the 1920s and 1930s it celebrated modernity often with new materials like glass plastic and chrome and an emphasis on.