Art Nouveau Side and Display Cabinets
11.18.09
CABINETS side and display, 18th century english country chair ‘art nouveau’ 1890-1910
an art nouveau mahogany display cabinet of rather flimsy construction, antique wooden twin beds or headboards with stained glass decoration to the leaded glazed door and inlaid with beechwood flowers. Rather Liberty’s in design but a bit more sophisticated and individual. c. 1900
an art nouveau bow-fronted display cabinet with glazed side doors decorated with leaded mauve leaves. The bowed doors are inlaid with apple tree motifs and the tapering baluster columns in the central shelf section
are purely decorative.
An interesting side cabinet of art nouveau design of English origins, mantle antique the only sinuousness perceptible being in the inlays. The use of much-leaded glazing appears to have been a feature of later English art nouveau
which emulated some Arts and Crafts Movement designers. Certainly leading was used in the 1920s to give a sort of ‘craft’ look. The thin tapering legs are straight, north carolina antique license plate not splayed in 1950s Danish fashion the one on the left has been dislodged. c. 1900
An art nouveau cabinet of a design possibly emanating from Liberty’s, commode pots who were much associated with art nouveau furniture. The cabinet is of mahogany with inlaid decoration. Note the flat square feet like the ‘caps’ on art nouveau uprights and the exaggeration of the flat top. C. 1900
A side cabinet by Gardner & Son of Glasgow, antique waterfall vanity art deco in the art nouveau manner. Note the flat capped uprights, antique match safes echoed by the feet. The stained glass in the glazed doors is balanced by the inlays in the solid doors, ornate book shelves although the ‘whiplash’ above is not very consistent with the geometric curves below.
An art nouveau display cabinet in mahogany with decorative inlays of floral motifs. Note, antique arcade machines + mirrors again, antique simmons metal beds the flat capped uprights so favoured by Voysey and the pernickety grouping of the `balusters’ in the top gallery in threes and fives.
A mahogany side cabinet, antique car tools the design of which is the result of a union between art nouveau principles and the characteristic Edwardian upper shelf with centrally arched back, books antique radios this time pierced into the ever-popular
broken pediment. The result is that the top has a curiously inglenooked effect while the rest of the cabinet is conventional enough, sue et mare with some art nouveau inlays.
An interesting oak cabinet with folksy-artistic leaded glazed doors above and below, antique wall bookcase the upper ones being curtained. The central door panel has a stained glass still-life scene, antique wooden engraved lecterns depicting a steaming bowl and ladle, austria made wooden doors a
drinking mug or glass, old coin sanaa antique quran a lemon and a decanter. The author naturally supposes that the piece is intended for the storage of the makings of hot punches for winter nights but then some people will think of a drink when
confronted with almost anything …
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