BGC Survey Course

European Decorative Arts

1850-1920

Paul StirtonSpring 2015

The Crystal Palace, designed by Joseph Paxton 1851

Views from a series of colored prints by James Simpson

Jennens & Bettridge (Birmingham)dining chair in papier-mâché, wood and mother of pearl 1850

Papier mache cake tray

jewelry, hand mirror and display cabinet in gutta percha

Electroplated metalwork by the English firm Elkington & Co.

Teapot 1853

Salver 1853

Wine cooler 1886

Casket designed and made by Alexandre Gueyton, 1851Silver inset with pearls and rubies.

Electrotype copy of Gueyton casket produced by Elkington & Co. 1856

Purchased at 1851 Exhibition for the South Kensington Museum: 'Notwithstanding the general form is too architectural for a work of ornament and many portions are out of scale: it may be studied with advantage, as a good example of surface decoration. The execution, also, is very perfect.’Copied in electroplate by Elkington & Co.

Electroplated table centerpiece for Napoleon III, by Christofle & Cie c.1857

Ciborium 1887

Bourgeois consumer goods designed by A-E Carrier-Belleuse: Clock in ‘imitation bronze’, 1867 : Ceramic pot stand for Sevres, 1876

Chair 1840 No. 14 Chair 1859 Armchair 1859

Thonet bentwood furniture

Metalwork at the Great Exhibition as reported in the Art Journal –“a plethora of flamboyant shapes reminiscent of a Baroque palace”

Coalbrookdale Fruit dish by Schinkel, 1820 but produced through the 1870s

Cast Iron Bench 1860s Christopher Dresser Coat stand, 1880

Henry Cole, ‘Summerly’ tea service produced by Minton’s 1847

Richard Redgrave ‘Well Spring’ carafe 1847

Owen Jones: The Grammar of Ornament, 1856

The South Kensington Museum and education galleries at the “Brompton Boilers” 1853

The South Kensington Museum opened 1857, renamed the Victoria and Albert Museum 1899

‘False Principles’ (27 and 31)

Imitation of nature and imitation of architecture

English printed furniture fabrics c.1850

“False Principles” of natural form vs stylization and flat patternWallpaper design by Owen Jones

Pugin Floriated Ornament

flattening the basic structure of plants

Strawberry Hill by Horace Walpole begun 1752 (left)

Fonthill Abbey by James Wyatt

1796-1813

Palace of Westminster by Charles Barry and A. W. N. Pugin 1834-68

House of Lords interior

Peer’s lobby and Robing Room

A W N Pugin Contrasts 1836

The Glossary of Ecclesiastical Ornament and Costume 1844

St Giles, Cheadle 1842

A W N Pugin, Oak table 1852

‘Antique furniture is particularly appropriate here, more so than in any other part of the house’ (Kerr 1864)

The Antiquarian hall

Sir Walter Scott’s Abbotsford

Connecting with national history

A W N Pugin 1851 Medieval Court

1848 wallpaper from the Houses of Parliament

1845 Cheadle tiles

Armoire from the Medieval Court made by J.G. Crace

E.W. Godwin

William Burges

Decanter 1865

The Yatman Cabinet 1858

Chateau de Pierrefonds, Picardie, restored as a royal residence for Napoleon III

New urban buildings and church interior by Eugene Viollet-le-Duc

Viollet Le Duc, illustrations from Dictionnaire Raisonne Du Mobilier Francais 1858-70

Pink Room in the Chateau de Roquetaillade, below right 1850-70

Holy Oil flask

Angiolo Barbetti cabinet 1845 H-A. Fourdinois cabinet 1867

Renaissance Revival cabinet designed/carved by Maigret, Protat & Pasti, manufactured by firm of Henri-Auguste Fourdinois, c. 1867

Exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle, 1867

Jorge Colaço: ‘Azulejo’ tile murals at Palace of Buçaco, Portugal, in the Neo-Manueline style, 1888-1907

Adamastor 1907

Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro: revival of tin glazed tiles (Azulejos) from period of Manuel I (1495-1521)

Antoni Gaudi Drafting table 1878

Bench 1898

Gaudi furniture for Palau Guell c.1888

Moorish style ceramics by Edward Honoré 1844 and J-T. Deck 1862. The ‘Alhambresque’ style popularized by Owen Jones, Plans … of the Alhambra, of 1836

Bracquemond and Rousseau dinner service, 1866-75, faience, manufactured by Lebeuf-Millet et Cie, inspired by Hokusai’s Manga

Auguste Wilms, Jasmine Vase for Elkington, 1883

William Nesfield Screen with Japanese paper, 1867

Dresser: Tureen and ladle, Kettle and stand Hukin & Heath, 1880

Crow’s foot claret jug 1878

Letter stand 1881 Hukin & Heath

Toast-rack c 1880 James Dixon & Sons

Christopher Dresser

E. W. GODWIN Anglo-Japanese furniture, c.1873

‘CHEAP CHAIR’ resisting ‘swollen monstrosities’

E.W. Godwin, Anglo-Japanese sideboard c. 1867

J. M. Whistler The Peacock Room for F.R. Leyland 1877

Colour harmonies and wall divisions. Integrated scheme incorporating china and fine art. Small scale patterns. Contrasting textures. Anglo-Japanese cabinet. Fireplace blue & white tiles

Walter Crane, At Home, 1872 Frontispiece to Clarence Cook, The House Beautiful

Disseminating reform, C. L. EASTLAKE Hints on Household Taste first published 1868

Atkinson Grimshaw The Chorale 1873

Clock manufactured by Howell & James 1880 designer Lewis Day Decorator’s sample of Artistic wall

- breaks monotony of blank wall

Gourd

Christopher Dresser Linthorpe Art Pottery 1879-1882

Pre-Columbian Sea-urchin

William Morris and Edward Burne Jones at Red Lion Square, 1859

St George Cabinet, 1862

The Red House by William Morris and Philip Webb 1859

The Sussex chair designed 1860, based on an English vernacular chair type

The Green Dining Room at the South Kensington Museum by Morris, Marshall & Faulkner, 1866

Domestic interiors of Morris & Co designs; Kelmscott 1890 (below)

William Morris Virgin Annunciate stained glass, Selsey, 1862

William Morris drawing and Fruit wallpaper 1864

Acanthus 1879

Pink and Rose, 1890

Two early Morris textile designs:Tulip and Willow printed cotton 1873 (above)and Marigold furnishing fabric, 1875

Morris & Co. dyebook

Textile printing at Merton Abbey

Kennet printed cotton 1883

Woodpecker tapestry 1885

Holland Park carpet 1883

Morris giving a demonstration of weaving

Fust & Schoeffer Mainz Psalter 1457

Nicolas Jenson Plutarch’s Lives 1478

Emery Walker slide after Jenson 1889

The Kelmscott Chaucer, hand printed book, 1891-96

News From Nowhereand trial designs for Kelmscott Press typefaces and initial letters

National Romanticism

Hvittrask the studio house complex of Gesellius, Lindgren and Saarinen, near Helsinki, 1901-03

Eliel & Loja Saarinen’s studio house at Hvittrask

Lilla Hytnas (1888-1910) the studio house of Carl and Karin Larsson at Dalarna, northern Sweden

In the Corner (1894, above)

Papa’s Bedroom

Lazy Corner

Carl Larrson Ett Hem (A Home) 1899

Folk and vernacular inspired buildings by Victor Vasnetsov at the Mamontov Estate, Abramtsevo c.1880

Wall cabinet by Elena Polenova c. 1880

NATION AS PEASANT TEXTILES and NATIONAL IDENTITY in Hungary

1885 József Huszka szür embroidery

Ödön Lechner

Decorative Arts Museum, Budapest 1896

The Tulip Movement

POLITICISING THE CRAFTS

Paris 1900 : international style offensive

1900 Pál Horti cabinet design and pattern for teaching students

Vojtech Hynais Poster for Czecho-Slovak exhibition, Prague 1895

Dušan Jurkovič, Luhačovice Spa, Moravia

House under the Firs (Dom Pod Jedlami) Zakopane, 1896-7 for historian Jan Pawlikowski

The Zakopane Style in Poland

Villa Koliba dining room

Karol Tichy furniture made at Krakow 1908

Edward Trojanowski bookcase made in Krakow c1905

L’Art Nouveau Shop of Siegfried Bing opened in Paris in 1895

Vistor HortaHotel Tassell, 1893

Hector Guimard entrance ironwork for the Paris Metrobuilt for the Paris Exposition Universelle 1900

Art Nouveau Pavilion 1900

Furniture for a lady’s boudoir by Georges de Feure

Ceramic and Glass vessels by Emile Gallé Dragonfly Coupe 1903 : Carp vase 1878 : The Dark Men flask, 1900

Dining room, dress, and tableware by Henri van de Velde, as exhibited at the 3rd German Arts & Crafts Exhibition, Dresden. 1906

Interiors by Van de Velde: Smoking Room 1900; Cigar Shop 1899; Dining Room 1899

Parody of Van de Velde’s interior designs

Palais Stoclet designed by Josef Hoffman 1905-11

Chairs by Hoffman made by Thonet

The Café Fledermuas 1907

Cake stand, brooch, textile by Hoffman for the Wiener Werkstatte, c. 1908

Josef Hoffman interior and dress design, made by the Wiener Werkstätte c.1910

Adolf Loos: fireplace and shop interior c. 1910

Charles Rennie Mackintosh: designs for A House for an Art Lover 1901

C.R. Mackintosh and Margaret MacDonald, drawing room at Southpark Avenue, Glasgow, 1906

Dining room and bedroom at Southpark Avenue, c.1906

Mackintosh and MacDonald furniture and fittings

Houses and furniture by C.F.A. Voysey (1857-1941)

The Orchard 1899 Broad Leys 1898

Herman and Anna Muthesius at the Priory, 1900

Peter Behrens at the Darmstadt Kunstler kolonie 1901

Deutsche Werkbund exhibition, Cologne, 1914

Bruno Taut, Glass Pavilion

Cartoon of “The Typeform Debate,” 1914Chairs made by Van de Velde, Muthesius, and an artisan