When Buildings, Homes, Transportation and Everyday Things Were Also Art
We in the world of the 22nd Century are surrounded by the design ethic of ‘form should follow function’. Modern design of everything from the homes we live in to the automobiles we travel in to the everyday objects we live with have been designed almost totally for functionality with little if any view to any artistic elements. In the period from about 1870 to the Great Depression in this was not always the case. This was the age of invention and development of a wide range of consumer products - everything from homes (at least for the rich) to new products available, to transportation (cars, trains, airplanes) and the clothes the people living in those homes were wearing. It was an age of excess, but also of great beauty.
Below I have collected a sample of the way art was applied to homes, clothes, transportation and consumer goods the this period. At least for the rich.
Elevator in Vienna, designed by Otto Wagner in 1898
Blue Silk Ball Gown, New York, c. 1910
Facade Detail of the Palau Mornau, Barcelona 1908
Walking Dress, 1890’s
Sewing Set, 1890’s
Doll with Kitchen Set, 1870
Hamilton-Turner Inn Circa 1873 In Savannah, Georgia
Charles Over Mansion built in 1901 in Muncie, IN
Summer Dress by Hermès and Simca 8 Coupe Car. Photograph for "Rester jeune" magazine. Paris, May 1939.,Photographer Boris Lipnitzki( 1887 — 1971)
Art Nouveau Clocks 1900-1910
1883 Cape May New Jersey
Louis Comfort Tiffany, table lamp, 1897-1905
Woman drinking from a communal cup at a pump, 1899.
Teacup Trio, c1890
Wooden fruit cradle, art nouveau era.
The Gamwell House
Apartment in Paris c1900
Hale House, Los Angeles
Window at Horace Peck House
Maison Célèbre in Alameda, CA
Hôtel Solvay, Brussels, Belgium
Villa Görke, Leipzig, Germany
Evening Dress
Art Deco Mansion, West Palm Beach, USA
Art Deco Lake House
Art Deco Apartment Building - 1928
Bowl and 4 Piece Jam & Jelly Set - 1930s
Wall Art at Will Rogers High School, Tulsa, OK
A Bohemian Uranium Glass Perfume Bottle, 1930s
Art Deco Villa
Art Deco Wrought Iron and Gilded Metal Screen
Hall of Waters
Hall of Waters, also known as Siloam Park and Springs, is a historic building located at Excelsior Springs, Clay County, Missouri. It was first related to mineral waters discovered in the area and is now used as a city building.
1930 Delahaye Bugnotti Roadster
House 1886 New Orleans Louisiana
Art Deco Armchairs
House in Tel Aviv Built 1933
1937 Talbot Lago
Door Knocker 1890s
1930 Cadillac V16 Speedster Custom
La Villa Direckz, Belgium 1929
Ladies of Fashion 1890s
Antwerp Central Station - 1905
Landmark House in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Barillet House, 1900 Art Nouveau house in Orleans (France)
Illustration Poster of The Denver Zephyr Train
The Staircase By Paul Cesar Helleu
Watching the Horse Racing at the Auteuil Hippodrome in the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, France, 1912.
Chrysler Building Detail, Opened in 1930 NYC
Claude Monet‘s Kitchen, Built 1883 Giverny, France
Sewing machine, 1867
Sleeping Car on the Orient Express
Art Nouveau Desk, 1902.
Voisin C27 Aérosport 1934
Sparton 457X Radio Designed by Walter Dorwin Teague in 1936.
Shelley Green Blocks Tea Set, 1930s
Chandelier by Frank Lloyd Wright
The Dana-Thomas house in Springfield, IL
Usherwood, built 1936 Dorking, Surrey, England
Addison 2 "Waterfall" Catalin Art Deco Radio
Armchairs 1920s - 1930s
George D. Sturges House by Frank Lloyd Wright
It’s been more than 80 years since the completion of the historic George D. Sturges House, a Frank Lloyd Wright single-family home located at 449 North Skyewiay Road in Brentwood Heights. Considered a futuristic, architectural masterpiece, the George D. Sturges House is the only Usonian-style home, a design term coined by Wright, in Southern California.
Poster for the Orient Express
Dining Table on the Orient Express
Hôtel Le Belvédère du Rayon Vert Built between 1928 and 1932
1925 Round Door ROLLS ROYCE Phantom; designed by Jockheere Carrossiers Auto Body co., Belgium
Childs Peddle Car 1930s
Wrought Iron Door
Lined with stained glass windows depicting irises (Probably by Raphael Evaldre) and equipped with handles in lizard shape. Personal house architect Fran Hemelsoet, from Art Nouveau style 1902. Schaerbeeck,Brussels, Belgium.