http://www.modernsilver.com/artnouveaudeco.htm
Found this article online and I feel that Richard Whitehouse sums up the Art Deco fantasy we are imagining really well. Everyone should have a story running through their mind when they are thinking of changing the interior of their home: ideas and inspiration, pictures and words which create an image of how they want to live in their space and what they want it to be.
In Linen Luxe’s home, her story is about a traveller in the Art Deco period, liners and leather cases, chrome and marble, sumptuous fabrics and mirrored surfaces.
Art Deco belongs to a world of luxury and decadence, the golden age of the 1920s and 1930s. The very term conjures up a multitude of romantic images; huge ocean liners gliding effortlessly across moonlit seas; the sound of clinking cocktail glasses and the sound of a raucous jazz band emanating from a sumptuously decorated ballroom.
Despite this Utopian emphasis on luxury; Art Deco emerged in an era of economic slumps and depressions, social strife, hunger marches and the political battle between Communism and Fascism. It was against this troubled and traumatic background that Art Deco forged it’s own identity. Art Deco was essentially an eclectic style; it’s artists and designers plundering a diversity of historic sources. Simultaneously, however, it emphasised modernity, employing the latest industrial materials and techniques. It was this fusion of history and modernity that gave Art Deco its unique character. Ultimately, this world of exuberance, vitality and beauty was a world of fantasy, a world as escapist as any of the Hollywood musicals of the same era. It’s legacy, however, is one of great beauty, craft and imagination.
BUT, and here’s the big but – this is not a luxury liner, it’s a 1930’s semi…..so how do we get all that in, but still make it practical, comfortable, user friendly and not OTT.
There’s nothing like a challenge eh?!
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