The Thrifting Anthropologist

Classic 1930s Deco Living Room Art Deco: 1920s-1940s Disclaimer number 3: this 3 part series is to help folks who want to know what exactly is the difference between the big 3, Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and Art Deco. It is by no means a deep scholarly dissertation. You can hit the internet and dive down any part of that rabbit hole you fancy. This is my overview. Max La Vernier cast bronze 1930, classic Deco style Art Deco design exploded on the scene in a big way Paris at the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels.   Art Deco is much easier to remember and pronounce but no matter how you say it, that was the beginning of the modern age of design. It was celebrating a new age of posh for all, post-World War I, taking full advantage of materials and mass produced high end goods and handmade luxury goods. Marketing could be tied to advertising on the new medium of radio and in magazines and print; mass marketing was now a thing. N...

An art nouveau exterior I shot in Paris, Yes, it's an apartment building Art Nouveau:   1880s until about 1912 Disclaimer: This 3 part series is simply an effort to help those who want to know the difference between three of the major art movements of the  late 19th and early 20 th century, Arts and Crafts, Art Nouveau and Art Deco, in a nutshell. Lots of reading available out there for those want to know more. To Keep them straight A N D, Arts and   Crafts, Art NOUVEAU, and Art DECO. A romantic Nouveau interior Art Nouveau rose out of, and in some instances, at the same time the Arts and Crafts movement. Designers, architects, artists and artisans resonated to the free and extravagant movements of nature found in sinuous leaves, “whiplash curves”, birds, flower and feathers. Vican deco jewelry Art Nouveau artists and designers were looking for a new way to join art and design in a new vocabulary of making. Art Nouveau was romantic, and look...

Teco Pot, with a simple form and matte glaze This topic is so gigantic I've broken it into three parts and here's a handy remembering device to keep these styles straight:( Please note, this is not an all encompassing article on a massive and well-known subject, it's a peek through through a keyhole for those who are not experts but would like to know more.) A=Arts and Crafts N=Art NOUVEAU D=Art DECO The Arts and Crafts Movement encompassed the years 1880-1920, and it's designs and pieces  are still widely sought after. This movement was as much about changing society as it was about changing interior design and leaving the heavy over stuffed, over decorated Victorians behind. Arts and Crafts was intended to be a criticism of industrial society and what its founders perceived as cheap, mechanized soulless pieces churned out of factories and vastly over-decorated. The Victorian public was enamored of the new access to cheap quickly fabricated goods,...