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Unger Bros. or Unger Brothers (1872–1910) was a jewelry company in Newark, New Jersey, best known for their sterling silver Art Nouveau designs. The company was established by five sons from a German immigrant family. The oldest founded a jewelry business between 1870-1872 and began the manufacture of sterling silver items in 1878. Other sons ...
Vever’s scholarly approach to design involved a deep study of historical jewelry styles, particularly Renaissance and Rococo, which he reinterpreted through the fluid, organic aesthetics of Art Nouveau. [6] Henri was also a collector of a broad range of fine art, including prints, paintings, and books of both European and Asian origin.
Art Nouveau architecture is a design style defined by dramatic, nature-inspired ornamentation, often with whiplash curves and flowing lines that look like vines. At its core, Art Nouveau ...
Knox's work bridged the Arts and Crafts Movement, Celtic Revival, Art Nouveau, and Modernism. He is seen as a leading figure of the Modern Style movement. [2] [3] Knox's hundreds of designs for Liberty made his style widely known, [4] though not his name, as Liberty kept their designers
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Mucha and other Art Nouveau illustrators often collaborated with jewelers, Eugène Grasset, best known for his theatrical posters and magazine illustrations, made designs for objects ranging from combs to belt buckles created by Paris jewelers. René Lalique, best known for glass art, was also a major figure in Paris Art Nouveau jewelry design ...
The World of Art style made less use of the vegetal and floral forms of French Art Nouveau; it drew heavily upon the bright colours and exotic designs of Russian folklore and fairy tales. The most influential contribution of the Mir Iskusstva was the creation of a new ballet company, the Ballets Russes , headed by Diaghilev, with costumes and ...
Liberty style (Italian: stile Liberty [ˈstiːle ˈliːberti]) was the Italian variant of Art Nouveau, which flourished between about 1890 and 1914.It was also sometimes known as stile floreale ("floral style"), arte nuova ("new art"), or stile moderno ("modern style" not to be confused with the Spanish variant of Art Nouveau which is Art Nouveau in Madrid).