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Tapisserie de France 7, rue des Moulins 75001 Paris France |
Georges Garbier 1912 "Robe de crêpe" for "journal des Dames" & des modes. Newspaper "Costumes Parisiens" |
Oficial poster EXPOSITION INTERNATIONALE Arts Décoratifs Paris, Avril-Octobre 1925 |
Advertise by Schulz-Neudamm for "METROPOLIS" picture of Fritz Lang (1926) Museum of Modern Art New York |
The "Art Deco" style is resolutely luxurious and several of its best creations are to compare to the XVIIIth French century. Between the "Dôme" and the "Coupole" the end of the war lead to a license and anarchy explosion. To the Jazz's sound, a company including, between other,Raoul Dufy, Coco Chanel orAndré Bretongives the tone.
This period will be named the"Années Folles.". It is the time where architects draw furnitures, department stores open workshops of art, jewelers bring to glass industry and painters to their turn imagine fashion cloths's designs. |
ART DECO SEAT FURNITURES
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Around 1930 the industrialization of the production of the furniture does not allow the tapestry of seat to adapt to all the creative profusion. Nevertheless for the comfortable armchair of steamships, as well for the luxurious hotel, and of course, that the individuals rich home, and so "bourgeoise one, great artists like Raoul Dufy will create drawings for textiles and will leave there wonderfull composition. The Negro art is on the weave and one will find a lot inspiration in the decoration of cloths and the tapestry of seat. Three periods can be distinguished in the Art Deco's style : A period of revival (1910-1923), an other that we can name "Floral" (1919-1931), a last finally characterized by the modernism and the geometrical form (1923-1936). |
ART DECO SEAT COVERS CARTOONS FOR NEEDLEPOINT |
0144 Art Deco.
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0170 Art Deco.
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0144 Art Deco. A drawing very in the gender of seats covering created to this period of revival. The artist uses the flower as motive aranged in Clover's leaf. Stretched leaves of this flower serve to wonder the modern style and balances the strict color disposition of the flower. |
0170 Art Deco. Elegant creation which is composed five tulips on geometrical background. As for all seat covers we suggest to use the Petit Point. |
0179 Art Deco.
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0171 Art Deco.
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0179 Art Deco.Geometrical form going from the dark green to the turquoise. We feel in this composition the start influence of the cubism. The Art-Déco of this period choose cordial contrasts of the monochrome colors. This needlepoint tapestry also had been realized in purple. |
0171 Art Deco. The three roses, emblem of the Decorative Art, are here designed to the natural on a resolutely modern background. Two butterflies overfly this totality where the culture disputes it to the nature. |
0176 Art Deco.
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0172 Art Deco.
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0176 Art Déco. Giant palmes with in its center a flower to the geometrical curves. These palmes are colored by line, one with the green, the ecru, the red and the center green clear, the other orange, blue, yellow and the red. |
0172 Art Deco. These stylized flowers composed in seedling are typical of that revival period. This almost mechanical repetition corresponds to a period where stemming goods of the art are now published in great series. |
¹ Needlepoint Tapestry kits contain the hand painted canvas in full colour from Annie Bouquet 's Studio (NB: any color combination may be ordered, according to decoration.), yarns, two plated Gold needles, and instructions for the Petit Point stitch. The 100% cotton canvas is a double weave antique or white Monofil. The yarn is 100% pure wool "Medicis" from DMC France and some others dyed specificaly for us to Aubusson. |
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