Vase
Designer Georges de Feure French
Designer E. Gérard French
Manufacturer L'Art Nouveau Bing French
Not on view
Art Nouveau flourished in France and Belgium at the turn of the twentieth century. Organic forms inspired by nature, frequently accentuated with asymmetrical curves or elaborate flourishes, characterize its decorative vocabulary. Although purportedly antihistoricist, its elegant forms can often evoke the Rococo style of mid-eighteenth-century France; alternately, the arts of Japan also played an important role in defining the aesthetic. The term art nouveau derives from the name of Siegfried Bing's shop L'Art Nouveau ("The New Art"), opened in Paris in 1895. Bing sold exceptional pieces by many of the best-known European and Japanese designers working in this mode, including de Feure, who was hired as the head of its design department in 1900. In response to popular demand, however, poor-quality mass production hastened the demise of this original style in the following years.
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