Art Deco style is a decorative style that combines opulence and order, often featuring streamlined geometry and naturalistic motifs. Key elements of Art Deco design include vibrant colors, shapely accents, fluted details, geometric patterns, bold artwork, sculptures, high-contrast palettes, and rich materials.
Incorporating Art Deco flair into your home can be achieved by opting for vibrant colors, incorporating shapely accents, showcasing fluted details, incorporating geometric patterns, incorporating bold artwork and sculptures, using a high-contrast palette, and showcasing rich materials. This guide provides an in-depth understanding of the motifs, materials, and iconic characteristics of Art Deco furniture, as well as tips on caring for them.
Art Deco furniture designs are often meticulously crafted using exotic woods, materials, and lacquer, with inlays of inlays of color. To incorporate Art Deco interiors in your space, opt for vibrant colors, use geometric patterns, incorporate arches, and add glamorous lighting. Discover ten incredible Art Deco Style Furniture by HOMMÉS Studio that will add the right amount of glam to your project.
In summary, Art Deco style is defined by geometric patterns, naturalistic motifs, bold colors, and sinuous outlines, making it an ideal choice for adding a touch of luxury to your home. By following these guidelines, you can create a complete Art Deco haven or simply add a touch of vintage charm to your existing decor.
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What are the three types of Art Deco?
Art Deco architecture, originating in France before World War I, has three main variations: Zigzag, Classical Moderne, and Streamline Moderne. The earliest Art Deco style, which emerged between 1925 and 1940, was influenced by the Arts and Crafts Movement, Cubism, and the Vienna Secession. It paved the way for the Modern Movement following World War II.
Beaux-Arts, the most common building style before Art Deco, was taught at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris and was the predominant style of architecture in Europe and America from the 1830s to the early 20th century. It drew heavily from neoclassicism but also incorporated modern materials like steel, iron, and glass. This style was particularly influential in the United States from 1870 to 1920, with many prominent American architects studying at the Ecole.
Beaux-Arts buildings typically employ rich, bold classical ornamentation, with symmetrical massing, a central entrance, layered horizontal façade, flat roof, and horizontal top parapet line. Most important public buildings in the United States were designed in this style as late as the mid-1920s, but there were voices for change as early as the 1890s.
What is the difference between Art Nouveau and Art Deco furniture?
The Art Nouveau style is characterized by the sinuous whiplash line, while Art Deco focuses on stylized representations of natural forms, using geometry, vertical lines, and bright colors. The female figure was a principal motif, inspired by stage acts by Loie Fuller and Isadora Duncan. Mysticism and eroticism were significant themes, with depictions of nymph-like beings, fairies, mermaids, and medieval maidens. Egyptian styles and motifs were evident in both periods, with the Thebes Stool, designed in the 1880s, demonstrating the influence of imported furnishings.
Victorian architects also included Egyptian motifs in their designs, with the discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 catapulting ancient Egyptian culture into the public imagination. Egyptian motifs in early Art Deco design included sphinxes, hieroglyphs, and turquoise materials.
What are the rules of Art Deco?
Art Deco is a style that embodies the modernity of machines, characterized by simplicity, planarity, symmetry, and repetition of elements. It features clean shapes, geometric ornaments, and the use of man-made materials like plastics, vita-glass, and reinforced concrete, often combined with natural materials like jade, silver, ivory, and chrome. This style is admired for its streamlined appearance and representational forms.
How do you make furniture look Art Deco?
Art deco furniture ideas should embody contemporary artistry and handcrafted feel, using colors like black, white, gray, and metallics like gold, silver, and copper. Deep burgundy and brown hues, wood, and metal textures can create a luxurious feel. Chrome-plated metal, silver, and black lacquered wood furniture and accessories can add sophistication to living spaces. To bring these elements into your home, refresh your walls with moody colors and high-shine materials that reflect light.
Crystal, glass, and reflective surfaces are also essential. Art deco interior design draws inspiration from various eras, including the Renaissance and colonial, creating a mix of visual interest and intriguing appeal. Over the last century, small updates, attention to details, and new technology have modernized the look and feel of art deco decor. Macassar veneer texture, black and bronze finishing, and intricate detail work are perfect for art deco furniture ideas.
Even if you cannot afford a costly mahogany chair with a bronze overlay, you can customize a simple wooden chair with gilded wood, leather edges, and silk burl veneer for an elegant bourgeois excitement.
How to design Art Deco?
Art Deco style decor typically features solid colors or geometric designs, with a focus on bold colors and contrasting cushions. Lights were typically made of glass and chrome, with colored Tiffany-style glass and white glass being common. While original fixtures are rare, high-quality reproductions are available for purchase. To achieve a streamlined and modernist look, incorporate these key elements into your decor, such as incorporating solid contrasting blocks of color, incorporating bold colors, and using high-quality reproductions of fixtures.
What are the colors for Art Deco interior design?
Art Deco interior design is characterized by its rich color palettes, featuring jewel tones like sapphire, ruby, and emerald, and glimmering accents of silver and gold. Black is used consistently to add depth and drama, while light colors and soft pastels are often integrated to contrast and highlight. Bold shapes and repeating lines are essential in Art Deco interior design, with patterns like triangle shapes, chevron lines, sunbursts, and Greek key designs.
Bold patterns, such as wallpaper and tile arrangements featuring showstopping patterns, are vital in creating moody Art Deco atmospheres. Examples include hexagonal tiles in bathrooms, kitchens, or foyers, or floral or velvet embossed wallpaper as accent walls.
What furniture is used in Art Deco interior design?
Art Deco furniture featured ivory, brass, and mother of pearl inlays, with pieces finished with shagreen, snakeskin, oriental silks, pony skins, and other animal hides. Designers like Edgar Brandt and Charles Picquet used expensive materials like wrought iron and glass for architectural elements and lighting. Art Deco furniture was polished to a high sheen for brilliance, with Japanese lacquer often used for a hard, shiny, tactile finish.
What is the typical Art Deco pattern?
Art Deco is a style known for its geometric shapes and patterns, characterized by simplicity and symmetry. It features high-end materials like chrome, stainless steel, glass, lacquer, and exotic woods, as well as rich fabrics like silk and velvet. The style’s opulence is reflected in its bold and vibrant palette, featuring deep yellows, reds, greens, blues, and pinks, often complemented by black and chrome, enhancing the feeling of luxury and drama.
What are the key designs of Art Deco?
Art Deco is a style that combines simple, clean shapes with geometric ornamentation, often featuring representational forms like florals, animals, and sunrays. It is often influenced by the use of man-made substances like plastics, vita-glass, and reinforced concrete, often combined with natural elements. Art Deco is distinct from Art Nouveau and has had a significant impact on the architectural design of buildings like the Chicago Board of Trade Building.
What are 4 features of art deco?
Art Deco is a style that embodies the modernity of machines, characterized by simplicity, planarity, symmetry, and repetition of elements. It features clean shapes, geometric ornaments, and the use of man-made materials like plastics, vita-glass, and reinforced concrete, often combined with natural materials like jade, silver, ivory, and chrome. This style is admired for its streamlined appearance and representational forms.
What three design styles are involved in Art Deco?
The Art Deco architectural style can be divided into three principal categories. The three main variations of Art Deco are Zigzag (Jazz Moderne), WPA (Classical Moderne), and Streamline Moderne. Each of these styles is characterised by unique characteristics, which contribute to the style’s status as the earliest example of architectural style.
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22:50 My mother was 2 when the stock market crashed in 1929, and so she grew up in the 30’s – a time of extreme deprivation and struggle. She came of age with a scarcity mentality and a lot of anxiety, being the eldest of 6. So my childhood reflected her trauma, and it wasn’t fun. The 20’s may have been amazing, but 2 generations paid the price for that opulence and hedonism. I love many things about Art Deco, but not the ethos. Today I covet nothing except good health, and am grateful for what I have. Thank you for this trip down memory lane (such as it was 😝). See you next time. 🤩😁😘🤗👌👍👋
Heaven, I’m in heaven…! When I saw the title of this article I knew I was in for a treat! All the beautiful bookmarked burl veneer and the other glorious veneers about to be unencumbered from layers of stain and dirt to once again be shown to us in all their glory in one long article. And, I saw my favorite nightstands again! 😍😍
Angie, THANK YOU!!! This is my very favourite period in History… the 1920s, ’30s & ’40s. The Music, the Fashions, the Art Movements, Dance, the Architecture … and, of course, the Furniture!!! So I am thrilled that you are covering this period! (Growing up, when everyone was listening to Rock or disco … I used to listen to The American Songbook; all the music written for the musicals and the early films (Fred Astaire). It was an elegant age… but also the War years. And women had a rough go of it!) I absolutely love this furniture… and you do the most amazing and beautiful restorations on these pieces (they have died and gone to Angie Heaven, those lucky pieces!!).
Your Art Deco restorations, are hands down my absolute favorites! I get wistful thinking about my grandmother’s vanity. I so wish I had asked if I could have it. The woods during this period, were stand outs. As ever, your patience, attention to detail, and artistic talents, blow me away! Love it when you draw woodgrain! As I frequently do, I must give credit where credit is due; thank you Nacho for putting a paw on the side of the draw to hold it steady. Without that help, I’m not sure Angie could have successfully completed her project. Good job! (Decide between the two of you, who the last kudo is directed to)🐱
ANGIE! I remember perusal the full article for that second piece, the bar. How did I ever miss the otherworldly gorgeousness of the pattern on the front doors? I will be dreaming of that tonight! You made all these pieces JUMP! Just like the music you chose to accompany this. While ArtDeco has always been my favorite, I have realized it isn’t because of the wood, although I die for a beautiful burl. It’s the unique hardware I simply adore: it’s always a lovely surprise! Such ingenious designs! And your restorations always make them pop! Loved seeing little 🐯 Nacho again!
There was an old Hoover factory on the Western Avenue in Ealing, London, built in the early 30s. It’s Tesco’s HQ now, I think, but as a Grade II Listed building it’s been preserved. Look it up… it’s a magnificent piece of art deco architecture! *Elvis Costello wrote a song about it… it’s on “Get Happy!”, I think.
Well, if all of these aren’t the bee’s knees, I don’t know what is. 😅 I think I was reincarnated from the 20s or 30s: everything from this time period just ‘speaks’ to me for some reason; from architecture, decor, furniture – I couldn’t even help bopping to the music for this article! Thanks for feeding my soul. 🙂 🙂
I grew up with a lot of art deco pieces and i now love the style. My parents migrated to Australia from England in 1963 when i was 6 and we lived in a migrant hostel for the first couple of years while my parents worked and saved to buy land and build a house. We were lucky that the hostel was in a prestigious area of Sydney and mum furnished the new house from local op shops, mostly beautiful art deco pieces which mum secretly hated because to her it was so old fashioned and she couldn’t afford better. I remember the bulky sideboard and dining table & chairs were dark stained, almost black, like Japanned. Table was always kept covered with light table cloths.
Art Nouveau: Turn of the Century through the 1920s, organic and flowing, NATURE! (The Gibson Girl). Art Deco; mostly the 1930s into the ’40s, cubist, machinist and graphic designs, circles, squares, triangles and the relationship between them. One Movement is almost a rejection of the other. Both were LAVISH. Then… one comes to Mid-Century Modern and that was minimalistic and a rejection of the lavishness of the previous two movements.
While the shape and style of the furniture isn’t my thing, I do love the different types of wood veneer with grain and color variations. The absolute best is the incredible change you achieve in the appearance, stability and life of the pieces you work on. The results are a combination of artist, refinisher and rehabilitation, always stunning! 💖👌👏👍💖
I grew up seeing all kinds of waterfall furniture and thought the style was ugly. Obviously it was the finishes had yellowed with age and weren’t finished to your standard in the first place. I loved the big overstuffed chairs and curved book cases, and the cars were terrific but if I had the furniture them the way you finished them, I’d be over the moon. They were considered “old” fashioned then. My mom had 60’s Scandinavian design furniture which I disliked then and still do, although I know you like it. I liked art nouveau and Victorian, things you only seeing surviving as expensive antique in this country. I watch a lot of Chateaus on YouTube and they are always going to brocantes (French second hand and antique stores) to shop and my head spins off my neck at the variety and prices of this stuff there. Oh to be young enough to move to France!
Remember 2 o 3 of them… but delighted to watch them again !!!…Art deco finishes are fascinating… the elaborate woods, matching ‘ flame panels’ and the curves everywhere… 😱👍…. Love you take all of that awful gloopy varnished stuff of and give everything a finish that really shows off all of the separate elements and decorative elements… They really look so much more lovable than the original brown chunky drab look…I think anyway 🫢?!…. My total favourite piece is the stunning ‘radiogram’…. Which was an epic reveal…Such an amazing item… and probably quite a rare find too….Hope people were queuing up for that one 🙏🤞…..Can see why Art Deco is becoming a favourite of yours to work on….I do still love teak and MCM furniture best though…while appreciating other eras…Have you ever been able to find any Art and Craft pieces of furniture to restore ?…or is that even more difficult to source?… Absolutely adore that era too ( have a solid Oak Bureau Bookcase which I got really cheaply years ago…. With original copper draw pulls …which are brilliant)… very gorgeous article of those wonderful Art Deco pieces… with your usual immaculate restoration… So enjoyable Angie 👏👏👏. Sue (UK)… 😃
I LOVE Art Deco and always have! You do an extraordinary job on these pieces. You put so much time, effort, and love into it. You are amazing to watch. Thank you for making these unique pieces beautiful and useful again. I love what you do. You did a great job of matching the music for this compilation. It was great listening. Thanks for all the facts you added. You’re awesome!! And spectacular!
Love this article, especially your choice of music. Raised in the early 50s and 60s, we often only had music, and it was always in our home. I remember seeing similar pieces like this in my grandparent’s and great-grandparent’s homes. The burls for the veneer are absolutely gorgeous! FYI… I actually have a one-sided 78rpm vinyl trecord of my great-grandfather playing his violin💞
I’m a relatively new viewer to your website. Maybe a few months so far. I just enjoy perusal furniture flipping articles. You, by far, are my favorite. Why didn’t I find you years ago? LOL. You have a gift, your knowledge, expertise, and dedication to the craft is remarkable and impressive. My Great Grandfather built my bedroom set when I was 7 out of Birdseye Maple. It’s not common here, and I understand he had some challenges with the “Birdseye” parts in the wood. It desperately needs refinishing and minor repairs. Because of his challenges, I’m afraid to do anything with them. But, thanks to your inspiration, I think I’m ready to tackle the pieces and return them to the masterpieces my great Grandfather made. I’ll let you know how it goes. Will probably start in the Winter ( San Francisco) as it will be cooler working in the garage. Thank you !
Good to see these in compilation and how you’ve followed a fairly consistent approach to the finished appearance. I could envisage a ’30s house equipped with the. A minor historical note: the name Art Deco arises from the 1925 Paris exhibition. Your work prompted a memory. In 1990 a friend learned that the Royal Bank of Scotland were vacating their residential training centre in Ramsay Garden (next to Edinburgh Castle) and were about to scrap its1946 furniture. We hired a van and secured three sets at zero cost: one each for my friend and I and one we gave to the Museum of Scotland (where it’s currently on display) consisting of bedhead and frame, two bedside cabinets, dressing table with perfect circular mirror, tallboy (dresser) and wardrobe. They were of a beautiful Deco design with voluptuous curves and bakelite handles but intriguingly were constructed of chipboard (pressed wood) and softwood carcasses sheathed in aluminium, surplus to wartime aircraft manufacture and made by the Hawker Aircraft Company (of Hawker Hurricane fame). We had it in our 1930s flat for a number of years then sold it when we moved to our present late Victorian house as it looked totally out of place (and time).
I’d seen all these articles, and thought I’d just scroll through, but I got OBSESSED with your editing! The way you matched the content to the music was masterful. Not just appropriate music, that’s not what I’m talking about. Switching images on the beat, matching your movements to the music, even the glue bottle bobbing in time to the music, for pity’s sake! Switching images from before and after on the nightstands to jazz phrasing, switching every six or seven beats instead of a more predictable eight … I swear my heart stopped a couple times. Jeez, woman, is there anything you can’t do? This was freakin’ brilliant! 🥰🥰🥰
Oh! My! Gosh! This is exquisite X 5!! What amazing work you do. I have an art deco buffet in my garage that I hoped to bring back to life one day. Unfortunately, life got brutal for several years and the buffet was the last thing on my mind. Now I’m too old and limited to be able to do it myself. How I wish I could pass it on to someone with your skills so it can be returned to its original beauty. 😟
I really just started perusal your article. The way you present them. The way you come up with the different solutions to different problems are amazing. You have a gift for making things beautiful again. Great job! Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Oh by the way you adding historical info is such a good idea too. I love history always have.
I almost missed this one 😮. Spot on with the music. Now that our weather is in the low 20’s, I can start up on the furniture again. I’ve got 2 art deco dressers from neighbors who moved last year. Don’t think they are original to the period. Sadly, the top + side veneers are both heavily damaged, and I can’t afford to replace them. With all your tips, I know I have to replace the hardware in brass. Many thanks for all of your inspiration articles.
Love the furniture you have showcased. The music not so much. One thing I have noticed, is that unlike some other refinishers, you have not painted thin gold stripes on your furniture. Personally, I dislike it very much. I detracts from the beautiful lines and the geometrical veneer patterns. Thank you for this amazing display.
I love all the Art Deco pieces you’ve done, but you really went above and beyond with the radio cabinet, making new knobs and recreating the gold labels, plus all the veneer replacement. The way all that beautiful wood grain on these pieces glows after restoration is so satisfying. I hope you can find more of these.
My parents left me their bedroom set which is Art Deco. It was used when they bought it in the late 40’s, and has had some repairs but overall is in pretty good shape for its age. There is the bed, vanity, night stand and chifferobe. I would love to send you a picture after I freshen it up. You’ve given me so many ideas!
I was wondering if you have ever taken apart a vintage dresser. When I am sanding down every inch of it. it looks like it is fairly easy to take apart and put back together, but I would definitely want to watch somebody else do it first and with your skill level I feel like this is something that you could do.
I am big fan of Art Deco. Were I live, these pieces rarely pop up. I have one small art deco table that I bought for a reasonable price. Its restoration took longer than I anticipated. It strikes me how much time you spend bringing these pieces back to their original glory. Besides the skill, it takes a lot of persistence and patience. The results are amazing.
Hands down, this IS THE BEST Art Deco restoration that I have 𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑹 seen! I’m just blown away ~ 𝑲𝑼𝑫𝑶𝑺❣️. I might say as well, 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 you do is aboveboard. I think everyone, myself included, are always looking for the quickest turnaround…… I’m lazy lol. Your articles give me inspiration to SLOW DOWN & actually enjoy the process. Thank you for sharing your workmanship, art and obviously, love you have for restoration. Wishing you all the best of everything 😊
Fun fact: Joseph Stalin absolutely HATED Art Deco. He found it to be “excessive” and believed that it didn’t “represent Soviet ideals.” He flat out banned it in Russia prior to WWII, in favor of an imperial style that was massive, overly heavy, and gaudy with harsh right angles everywhere. Not even rounded edges. I’m talking straight up 90° angles. One wardrobe could have a dozen architectural elements and they all had right angles. It was also ridiculously expensive and that was the only style available for purchase for everybody.
I hope you put your signature on these pieces.. or put your business name on them. Your talents at refurbishing them and bringing new life into what most would consider junk is to be applauded. I would want to know it was you who was responsible. If I bought a piece with your name on it I could rest assure that I was getting a quality restoration, not some shoddy work that was only done for esthetic purpose and not a structural restoration as well.