I designed and built 18th century New England style furnishings through the 1990s up until about 2010. I was juried to be included in the Early American Life 100 Best Craftsman, who makes what and where to get it. I then discovered the best of Art Nouveau furnishings. Never, in my entire life had I seen anything so intoxicatingly beautiful. I then began working thousands of hours building the most demanding to create Art Nouveau furnishings being made in the USA. I shall never weary of Art Nouveau, as I stated, it is INTOXICATINGLY beautiful. A very tiny percent of the population, however, will appreciate Art Nouveau , it requires a gentle spirit to appreciate it. The average American allows authority figures, film etc. to create their desires, and the mind set that is pushed it to be cold, cynical, strong etc. etc. To design and build the best of this style requires physical strength, hard work, willing to power through design frustrations, determined to not be discouraged by sharp hand tools impaling fingers etc. Blood, sweat and tears (from hot weather) to create the beautiful, the gentle, the ethereal. So it requires a physically, mentally tough, determined personality to bring into existence, the gentle, the sublimely, ethereally beautiful into existence. Art Nouveau is a dream, a dream of gentleness, beauty and light. Ralph in Ohio.
It is so wonderful to learn that there are others who also see the enchantment Art Nouveau invokes. How fortunate you are to possess the skill to create your own representation pieces influenced by a time in history that was divinely beautiful and yet so fleeting. You are so right people in true appreciation are few!
@@dawnmahaffey1167 2:10 Last night I was two hours online milking everything that I could out of the internet regarding Hector Guimard. 95% of my online searches the past 10 years are Emille Galle, Eugene Gaillard and Louis Majorelle. So Guimard, I have long been aware of his work, but last night my attention riveted on the large cast iron medallions that he made for the Paris Metro stations. Absolutely sublime, but what is it? Draped fabric?? ANYHOW, for several years, as I fall to sleep at night I am visualizing how I want the pc computer stand to look that I want to build for myself. Tall, narrow, bleached and stained walnut, all built around my two blue heron in flight with bamboo carved from rock maple panels that I carved several years ago. The frame will be the Eiffel tower silhoute , curving , sinuous framing at the top. I have no intention of trying to sell you anything, but I shall send photos of what I have done in the past for customers to idhub.ca . I shall send one to begin, if my work is interesting to you I can send more. Bear in mind, my photos are not about me, I am not important, the intent of sending them is the spirit of absolute infatuation with the best style of furnishings that the world has ever seen in thousands of years of design. Producing these pieces is insanely difficult and time consuming, only those who have built these can speak to this. THIS is why I say, that Gaillard, Galle, Guimard and Majorelle are the "gods" of Art Nouveau furnishings.
You sound very interesting gorgeous human being, I wish in was in the USA to meet up fr a coffee and hear what you have to share.. Plz do share your insta profile so we can check the pieces you are making.. would live to see that.. Peace from Egypt 🥰
@@m.dinfinix2043 When I build what I want to build , it is Art Nouveau style, but then I have no income of money. So most of the time the past 10 years I make artisan, hand carved walking canes for my customers. Art Nouveau, the best examples by Louis Majorelle, Eugene Gaillard, Hector Guillmard, etc. are soul meltingly beautiful. The spirit in them is eternal exuberant youth, optimism, prime of life, gentleness etc. The most beautiful style that the world has ever seen and the most technically demanding to design and make. I regard the original creators of this style as interesting and gorgeous, not myself. I am simply in rapt admiration and appreciation of their works. Thank you!
Love art Nouveau because it was a social movement to pay tribute to craftsmanship, nature, organic movement, traditional hand crafts, including indigenous elements from across the globe. It is uplifting in comparison to Victorian with feel somewhat conditional, rigid, black, and industrial machine of the upper class. It influenced 60s Art Nouveau revival in psychedelic theme.
Lovely enthusiastic presentation, thank you. I love Art Nouveau too, don't care if it is trendy or not, I'm incorporating what I can afford into what I have. Even a little piece makes the heart sing.
Just mind baffling that Art nouveau would be thought ugly. When I finally knew what this style was it was like coming home. It filled my soul. I love the curves, the nature and the gentle way it mimics mother nature. I finally had a name for the style I was drawn to. Art Nouveau. 😍
@@tularegirl I agree, you put it so well. I have the same love for it. I haven't been to Paris but I know people who have and I'm told that the city has some nice examples of it. The Metro entrances are Art Nouveau in style.
i really like this style! As an art student we have an assignment to draw something and I found this by accident, and ohhhI love it! My assignment is actually inspired by this style
The staircases really are amazing. Insects are making a come-back in high end design :) very beautiful. Thank you for all of the history in this video, I love finding out why people use the word "Gaudy" as an adjective!
A French stained glass artist of this period was Francis Chigot, who was based in Limoges but worked to restore and design stained glass windows all over France and the world. He died in 1960, and worked a lot post Ww1 and between the two world wars, and post WW2.
........ Art Nouveau = "new art", the Germans called it "Jugendstyle" which meant "young art" . Now, if the Germans intended to imply that that it is a "new style" they would have coined the phrase "Neuenstyle" or "Neuenkunst", those phrases mean "New Art" but they did not, they called it Neuenstyle, and this is in accord with the content, the content was youth, prime of life, happy, peaceful, optimistic, romantic devoid of the troubles of life. I have read the comments of the establishment interior decorators of the period in 100 year old publications, the establishment looked on Art Nouveau with derision and contempt. Oh, shock and horror, portraying insects, serpents, "All manner of entymological horrors." on home furnishings! Therefore, I say, that Art Nouveau was not just youthful in content, but it was purchased and supported by those "young at heart" if not physically young. Art Deco on the other hand is hard, angular, metro content, wise, cool, cosmopolitan, confident , savoir faire women, not the innocent, optimistic, youthful women of Art Nouveau. In "Art Nouveauland" it is always bright, cheerful, sunny, all frozen in a state of eternal youth. Art Nouveau warms my heart, Art Deco, is cold, jaded, "nose in the air" suave cosmopolitans (like the short trailer clip popping up on youtube of Cruella, the short, cold, sneering conversation between Cruella in red and the snob in black and white with massive wide shoulders), I admire it, but immediately return to my objet d'amour Art Nouveau.
May I ask what color paint you used on the wall behind you? It's absolutely gorgeous! Excellent video! You really covered this topic in depth. I appreciate you. 🍁🍂
Ania, I do enjoy your videos, and I do love Art Nouveau, to be sure! So glad you covered it! I have a small ask to make, though...I was wondering if you would consider losing the "Pop" hammer sound that you use every few minutes...it really detracts from the flow, and from your very interesting commentary! Sorry, I know it is your channel and you will make it the way you want to, just thought some feedback from your audience might be helpful. Because other than that loud/disruptive and distracting sound, your videos are great!
I really appreciate that. I felt like there are so many pictures and I wanted to kinda bring the viewer back if they lost focus... but that is a very valid point! Thank you for letting me know. I'm always trying to tweak the presentation 😊
@@InteriorDesignHub Your presence and commentary are enough to keep us awake and watching, lol! I never lose focus, as I am truly interested in what you are saying! You are very informative, and also, you would be such an interesting friend to have! You have more than enough personality to keep us interested/focused! 💖😍🤗thank you for your considered reply!
Awe thank you so much. It's so refreshing to have constructive criticism. That I can take and make the experience better. Most people comment on my personality, hand gestures or sound of my voice.... things that make me...me...you know. THIS comment from you....I wish I could out it on a billboard and say this is the right way..lol...so THANK YOU for being genuinely kind viewer! And THANK you for your kind words! I really appreciate them. 💛😊 you made my day!
@@InteriorDesignHub I think you are just fine, and absolutely lovely, Ania! If anyone tells you to change your wonderful, essential "you-ness" - meh! They can hike! You're doing just great! And I love how you cover a multitude of design styles. So refreshing from the usual designers stuck on "oooo loooook it's Japandi!" 🙄🤣So, here are many thanks from *me*, because you are looking out for all of us! And not just the minimalists 😄
Unbelievable to see you never mention Nancy !!!!!!! 😄 Art Nouveau is in Nancy where Majorelle and Gallé Emile worked… Nancy is in France. Go to France and in Nancy, it is between Reims and Strasbourg near Metz, it is in La Lorraine in the département de Meurthe - et - Moselle, three hours from Paris, it is in the North East of France. If you do not go to France, at least, know that these two ones come from Nancy. 💐💖👋🏻
Art Nouveau will forever be the grandest style ever created, in today's work we've lost most of the craftsmanship...the beauty of natural aesthetics, everything is blocky and cookie cutter 🤮
Technically yes it’s a French phrase. But pronouncing art with the t is the accepted and correct way to say the phrase in English. If you said “arte nouveaux” to an English speaking audience, you’d sound wrong and wouldn’t be communicating effectively.
I designed and built 18th century New England style furnishings through the 1990s up until about 2010. I was juried to be included in the Early American Life 100 Best Craftsman, who makes what and where to get it. I then discovered the best of Art Nouveau furnishings. Never, in my entire life had I seen anything so intoxicatingly beautiful. I then began working thousands of hours building the most demanding to create Art Nouveau furnishings being made in the USA. I shall never weary of Art Nouveau, as I stated, it is INTOXICATINGLY beautiful. A very tiny percent of the population, however, will appreciate Art Nouveau , it requires a gentle spirit to appreciate it. The average American allows authority figures, film etc. to create their desires, and the mind set that is pushed it to be cold, cynical, strong etc. etc. To design and build the best of this style requires physical strength, hard work, willing to power through design frustrations, determined to not be discouraged by sharp hand tools impaling fingers etc. Blood, sweat and tears (from hot weather) to create the beautiful, the gentle, the ethereal. So it requires a physically, mentally tough, determined personality to bring into existence, the gentle, the sublimely, ethereally beautiful into existence. Art Nouveau is a dream, a dream of gentleness, beauty and light. Ralph in Ohio.
It is so wonderful to learn that there are others who also see the enchantment Art Nouveau invokes. How fortunate you are to possess the skill to create your own representation pieces influenced by a time in history that was divinely beautiful and yet so fleeting. You are so right people in true appreciation are few!
@@dawnmahaffey1167 2:10 Last night I was two hours online milking everything that I could out of the internet regarding Hector Guimard. 95% of my online searches the past 10 years are Emille Galle, Eugene Gaillard and Louis Majorelle. So Guimard, I have long been aware of his work, but last night my attention riveted on the large cast iron medallions that he made for the Paris Metro stations. Absolutely sublime, but what is it? Draped fabric?? ANYHOW, for several years, as I fall to sleep at night I am visualizing how I want the pc computer stand to look that I want to build for myself. Tall, narrow, bleached and stained walnut, all built around my two blue heron in flight with bamboo carved from rock maple panels that I carved several years ago. The frame will be the Eiffel tower silhoute , curving , sinuous framing at the top.
I have no intention of trying to sell you anything, but I shall send photos of what I have done in the past for customers to idhub.ca . I shall send one to begin, if my work is interesting to you I can send more. Bear in mind, my photos are not about me, I am not important, the intent of sending them is the spirit of absolute infatuation with the best style of furnishings that the world has ever seen in thousands of years of design. Producing these pieces is insanely difficult and time consuming, only those who have built these can speak to this. THIS is why I say, that Gaillard, Galle, Guimard and Majorelle are the "gods" of Art Nouveau furnishings.
I love this comment
You sound very interesting gorgeous human being, I wish in was in the USA to meet up fr a coffee and hear what you have to share..
Plz do share your insta profile so we can check the pieces you are making.. would live to see that..
Peace from Egypt 🥰
@@m.dinfinix2043 When I build what I want to build , it is Art Nouveau style, but then I have no income of money. So most of the time the past 10 years I make artisan, hand carved walking canes for my customers.
Art Nouveau, the best examples by Louis Majorelle, Eugene Gaillard, Hector Guillmard, etc. are soul meltingly beautiful. The spirit in them is eternal exuberant youth, optimism, prime of life, gentleness etc. The most beautiful style that the world has ever seen and the most technically demanding to design and make.
I regard the original creators of this style as interesting and gorgeous, not myself. I am simply in rapt admiration and appreciation of their works.
Thank you!
Love art Nouveau because it was a social movement to pay tribute to craftsmanship, nature, organic movement, traditional hand crafts, including indigenous elements from across the globe. It is uplifting in comparison to Victorian with feel somewhat conditional, rigid, black, and industrial machine of the upper class. It influenced 60s Art Nouveau revival in psychedelic theme.
Lovely enthusiastic presentation, thank you. I love Art Nouveau too, don't care if it is trendy or not, I'm incorporating what I can afford into what I have. Even a little piece makes the heart sing.
Thank you so much for the kind words!
Amazing video and Amazing art style. We love it all!
Wow, what a great documentary. 👍 Fantastic pieces of Art Nouveau. So stylish, and yet people thought it to be ugly.
Just mind baffling that Art nouveau would be thought ugly. When I finally knew what this style was it was like coming home. It filled my soul. I love the curves, the nature and the gentle way it mimics mother nature. I finally had a name for the style I was drawn to. Art Nouveau. 😍
@@tularegirl I agree, you put it so well. I have the same love for it. I haven't been to Paris but I know people who have and I'm told that the city has some nice examples of it. The Metro entrances are Art Nouveau in style.
Oh! Here we go with another design that I love and didn't know a name for it..
Thank uuuuuuuux.. adding to the list..
I love this style... so visually interesting!
i really like this style! As an art student we have an assignment to draw something and I found this by accident, and ohhhI love it! My assignment is actually inspired by this style
That's wonderful to hear! Enjoy and good luck on the assignment! 😊
Thanks for your great video.
Thank you for watching!
The staircases really are amazing. Insects are making a come-back in high end design :) very beautiful. Thank you for all of the history in this video, I love finding out why people use the word "Gaudy" as an adjective!
I'm loving some of the patterns we are seeing come back into fashion!
A French stained glass artist of this period was Francis Chigot, who was based in Limoges but worked to restore and design stained glass windows all over France and the world. He died in 1960, and worked a lot post Ww1 and between the two world wars, and post WW2.
Paris, France has preserved a lot of it's Art Nouveau architecture
Excellent Video !!! Thank you !!!
Thank you for the kind words! Glad you liked it!
Thank you for doing the video I suggested! 🥰I didn' t know that gaudi was art nouveau.
So glad you enjoyed it! I had so much fun making it 😊 isn't his stuff amazing!!! One of my favorites!
@@InteriorDesignHub I have been to barcelona and especially loved the parcon gaudi.
Love the romantic feel also.
........ Art Nouveau = "new art", the Germans called it "Jugendstyle" which meant "young art" . Now, if the Germans intended to imply that that it is a "new style" they would have coined the phrase "Neuenstyle" or "Neuenkunst", those phrases mean "New Art" but they did not, they called it Neuenstyle, and this is in accord with the content, the content was youth, prime of life, happy, peaceful, optimistic, romantic devoid of the troubles of life. I have read the comments of the establishment interior decorators of the period in 100 year old publications, the establishment looked on Art Nouveau with derision and contempt. Oh, shock and horror, portraying insects, serpents, "All manner of entymological horrors." on home furnishings! Therefore, I say, that Art Nouveau was not just youthful in content, but it was purchased and supported by those "young at heart" if not physically young. Art Deco on the other hand is hard, angular, metro content, wise, cool, cosmopolitan, confident , savoir faire women, not the innocent, optimistic, youthful women of Art Nouveau. In "Art Nouveauland" it is always bright, cheerful, sunny, all frozen in a state of eternal youth. Art Nouveau warms my heart, Art Deco, is cold, jaded, "nose in the air" suave cosmopolitans (like the short trailer clip popping up on youtube of Cruella, the short, cold, sneering conversation between Cruella in red and the snob in black and white with massive wide shoulders), I admire it, but immediately return to my objet d'amour Art Nouveau.
Doing an interior design project basedArt Nouveau. Thank you
Glad I could help
New subbie here. I really enjoy your videos. I am learning a lot. Hope I can put some of what I am learning in my home.
Thank you so much!! 😊🙏💛
May I ask what color paint you used on the wall behind you? It's absolutely gorgeous! Excellent video! You really covered this topic in depth. I appreciate you. 🍁🍂
Hi! It is Benjamin Moore Affinity Collection AF100 Pashmina
Ania, I do enjoy your videos, and I do love Art Nouveau, to be sure! So glad you covered it! I have a small ask to make, though...I was wondering if you would consider losing the "Pop" hammer sound that you use every few minutes...it really detracts from the flow, and from your very interesting commentary! Sorry, I know it is your channel and you will make it the way you want to, just thought some feedback from your audience might be helpful. Because other than that loud/disruptive and distracting sound, your videos are great!
I really appreciate that. I felt like there are so many pictures and I wanted to kinda bring the viewer back if they lost focus... but that is a very valid point! Thank you for letting me know. I'm always trying to tweak the presentation 😊
@@InteriorDesignHub Your presence and commentary are enough to keep us awake and watching, lol! I never lose focus, as I am truly interested in what you are saying! You are very informative, and also, you would be such an interesting friend to have! You have more than enough personality to keep us interested/focused! 💖😍🤗thank you for your considered reply!
Awe thank you so much. It's so refreshing to have constructive criticism. That I can take and make the experience better. Most people comment on my personality, hand gestures or sound of my voice.... things that make me...me...you know. THIS comment from you....I wish I could out it on a billboard and say this is the right way..lol...so THANK YOU for being genuinely kind viewer!
And THANK you for your kind words! I really appreciate them. 💛😊 you made my day!
@@InteriorDesignHub I think you are just fine, and absolutely lovely, Ania! If anyone tells you to change your wonderful, essential "you-ness" - meh! They can hike! You're doing just great! And I love how you cover a multitude of design styles. So refreshing from the usual designers stuck on "oooo loooook it's Japandi!" 🙄🤣So, here are many thanks from *me*, because you are looking out for all of us! And not just the minimalists 😄
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nice video
Thank you!
your welcome@@InteriorDesignHub
Thanks for your very educating videos! Any idea by any chance, on where we could buy Art Nouveau ?
Not sure exactly...inwould probably look at local craftsmen, we have a lot of Mennonite people where I am and they'd beautiful work!
Unbelievable to see you never mention Nancy !!!!!!! 😄 Art Nouveau is in Nancy where Majorelle and Gallé Emile worked… Nancy is in France. Go to France and in Nancy, it is between Reims and Strasbourg near Metz, it is in La Lorraine in the département de Meurthe - et - Moselle, three hours from Paris, it is in the North East of France. If you do not go to France, at least, know that these two ones come from Nancy. 💐💖👋🏻
Obsessed. I am rebranding and want to get an art nouveau logo done… having a hard time finding an artist who could do it for me. Any suggestions?
Not my specialty. But I'm sure a local graphic designer would be a good starting point 😊
You forgot to mention Victor Horta. Check out Hôtel Solvay, Hôtel Tassel and Hôtel Van Eetvelde in Brussels.
Thank you for the suggestions :)
Youglish: casa batllo. I'm going with the Spanish 'y' sound for the 'll'
You know what would be fun...... if you wear a costume that fits the designs that you are presenting.
TIFFANY GLASS!
I'm terrible with names too, so I put the name in Google translate and press the mic button to hear how it's pronounced 🤷
Art Nouveau will forever be the grandest style ever created, in today's work we've lost most of the craftsmanship...the beauty of natural aesthetics, everything is blocky and cookie cutter 🤮
Rennie Mackintosh?? William Morris??
William Morris I Covered in Arts and Crafts, but he does cross over into this style as well. :)
I thought My Fair Lady was Edwardian.
i love this video. i do appreciate it. thank you .
but that popping sound is so God damn annoying. TBH.
Fair... I removed it from my videos after this one :)
Thank you for watching
You don’t pronounce “T” in the word “art”. Art Nouveau is a French word, not English.
Technically yes it’s a French phrase. But pronouncing art with the t is the accepted and correct way to say the phrase in English. If you said “arte nouveaux” to an English speaking audience, you’d sound wrong and wouldn’t be communicating effectively.
I'll say it how I want to, thanks