Decorative Arts and Architecture

philosophy behind deco

artistic functionality, dislike for machine made things

William Morris

green dining room

Charles Mackintosh

Ladies luncheon room

Art Noveau

product of the arts and craft movement named after an art shop in Paris

• mass producing art to be enjoyed by public

• inspired by Japonisme, impressionism, post-impressionism, rococo

• heavy on plant motifs

Victor Horta

staircase and stairwells

Antonio Gaudi

fluid buildings

• Casa Mila

Alexander Gustav Eiffel

EIFFIEL TOWERRR

embraced functionality with modernism

American architecture

• need for speed and no fires please

Henry Richardson

pioneer in fire resistance buildlings

Louis Sullivan

made pretty buildings for white collar

• lots of windows and fireproof