Art Nouveau style jewelry - Elaine Smitha

More jewelry from long ago. 

Elaine Smitha's website is at http://www.elainesmitha.com/

but it doesn't look like she making jewelry anymore.

Art Nouveau style jewelry - Heyoka Merrifield

Heyoka Merrifield - early pieces from many years ago.

He has a nice website at http://www.heyoka-art.com/

Some Art Nouveau style Jewelry

I just rediscovered some pictures of Art Nouveau style jewelry.

This is said to be: Fuchsia Necklace, 1905, designed by Alphonse Mucha, made by the jeweler Georges Fouquet. Opal, cabochon saphire, brilliants, gold mount. Petit Palais, Paris.

This is leading into Art Deco, but still has some Art Nouveau feel:

There is a Leon Hatot website at: http://www.leonhatot.com/

It uses Flash, and takes forever to load with my drinky dial-up connection,

so I gave up trying to discover if there are even better pictures on the site, 

but you're welcome to try if you've got a faster connection.

movie to see!

A friend has just informed me that the new movie of Colette's story "Cheri" is full of art nouveau. I'll be seeing it soon. 

Meantime, this site has some previews of the architecture:  http://www.paris-in-photos.com/wordpress/?p=133

Door of Hôtel Mezzara (60, rue La Fontaine), by Hector Guimard:

Illustration - Eugene Karlin

Another illustrator whose work had an art nouveau feel, was Eugene Karlin, who just passed away in 2003 at 84. For many years his drawings were very common in magazine ads, and I saved a few.

Illustration - David McCall Johnston

A number of illustrators work in the art nouveau style, borrowing elements to combine with their own personal elements. 

Here is some work by David McCall Johnston. He has a nice website, but I don't see any of his art nouveau style work there.

Ode to Leaves - Art Nouveau textbook primer

I was able to visit the Alphons Mucha Museum in Prague recently, and I highly recommend it! A great collection with lots of his early and late works, and much explanation. Information on the museum: http://www.mucha.cz/

One discovery was that his original posters were often in muted tones, beautiful but the prints made from them usually intensify the colors, and I like them that way even better.

Another thing I learned is that Mucha compiled a book on how to create art nouveau in his later years. Mucha's book has been translated into English. It is available here, from Dover: Mucha's Figures Decoratives

Another Dover book includes just the images from that book. I don't know why they did this, as they are almost the same price. I do own this one, and the illustrations are indeed nice. A lot of examples of figure-drawing (Mucha was classically-trained), but also many patterns and textures. It  is available here: The Art Nouveau Style Book of Alphonse Mucha

Here is one example illustration:

Star-Child

And one of mine:

Dover Books - a great resource

There are many beautiful high-quality books on Art Nouveau, some of which will be reviewed here later. But let me recommend a wonderful low-cost possibility. I know when I was a struggling art student, these source-books were my main introduction (along with the excellent libraries at a couple art schools). A great source of multiple Art Nouveau images for study and use are available from the books produced by Dover Publications. There are many. Here are some favorites:

From: Treasury of Art Nouveau Design & Ornament by Carol Belanger Grafton - Purchase it here

From: Art Nouveau: An Anthology of Design and Illustration from "The Studio" by Edmund V. Gillon Jr. - Purchase it here

From: Grasset's Art Nouveau Flower and Plant Designs  by Eugene Grasset - Purchase  it here

David Lance Goines

David Lance Goines, Berkeley's fine poster artist and lithographer, often works in the art nouveau / arts and crafts style. You can see much more of his work at his website http://www.goines.net/ , including larger versions of his posters, and even buy some.

Contemporary Art Nouveau Style Art - T_a_r_o_t Decks

Not "pure" Art Nouveau, but luscious and beautiful.

A new T_a_r_o_t set: http://www.mary-el.com/

A gorgeous Aquarian T_a_r_o_t set by David Palladini,

which can be purchased here: 
New Palladini T_a_r_o_t Deck & Book Set

and I see that he's just designed a new T_a_r_o_t Deck as well! See it here.

Here's a example from a T_a_r_o_t Deck that includes cards by Palladini, 

along with cards by artists in a similar style. See the deck here.

Contemporary Art Nouveau Style Furniture

Before looking into the famous historical works of Art Nouveau, I'd like to give recognition to some artists working in the style today. Art Nouveau style is extravagant, so such objects are not the most economical. Yet some artists still are producing gorgeous work. When I had the opportunity to furnish a house some years ago,  it was difficult to find anything in the art nouveau style - I wound up buying reproductions, which are very nice indeed, but it's nice just to see beautiful original work. So here are some wonderful contemporary artists whose work is influenced by art nouveau, or that at least might fit into an art nouveau decor:

Erik Schjeide - http://www.erikschjeide.com/carvedfurniturelinkwebsite.htm

John Hein - http://pluto.njcc.com/~jhein/

Paul Reiber - http://www.mendocinowoodworking.com/PaulReiber/

(and the whole website has beautiful work)

http://www.mendocinowoodworking.com/

William Doub - http://www.customfurniture-doub.com/

Sam Maloof - there are several memorial sites for him, but none seem to have a good collection of his work.

The best way to see it for now seems to be to do a google image search for his name.

Martin Pierce - http://www.martinpierce.com/

Emily Kate's Sofa:

http://www.homeportfolio.com/catalog/Product.jhtml?prodId=29547

Some pieces by Roger Heitzman:

http://www.heitzmanstudios.com/gallery2.html

And here are two gorgeous pieces I found in a catalog, but I can't discover whether they are still being made (sadly):

Some of my favorites

It's difficult to pick just a few favorites, but here's an attempt.

A necklace by Archibald Knox.

A painting by Gustav Klimt ("The Kiss").

A 1960s festival poster.

Modern Celtic-style art by Jim Fitzpatrick.

See more at:  http://www.jimfitzpatrick.ie/gallery/index.html

A music album cover by Roger Dean.

See more at: http://www.rogerdean.com/