JENNIFER'S FREE PRINTABLE DOLLHOUSE WALLPAPER

ART NOUVEAU

HERE ARE THE SAMPLES OF

ART NOUVEAU DOLLHOUSE WALLPAPER

There are 11 wallpapers in this category.If you find a wallpaper you like, click on the sample. Clicking the sample will bring up a full 8 inch x 10 inch page of the dollhouse wallpaper.

Art Nouveau (c.1880 to 1910)

Art nouveau could be said to be the first 20th century modern style. It was the first style to stop looking backwards in history for ideas, taking inspiration instead from what it saw around it, in particular the natural world.
When art nouveau was showcased first in Paris and then in London, there was outrage; people either loved it or loathed it. Within the style itself there are two distinct looks: curvy lines and the more austere, linear look of artists such as Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Some aspects of art nouveau were revived again in the 1960s.

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Get the Look

Get the look is meant for real size houses. The same rules apply to dollhouse rooms though, so I have included it here.

Floors - are parquet and should be stained and varnished. Colour schemes - are quite muted and sombre and became known as 'greenery yallery' - mustard, sage green, olive green, and brown. Team these with lilac, violet and purple, peacock blue. Mackintosh experimented with all-white interiors.

Walls - can either be painted in one of the colours of the palette or off-white, or papered.

Wallpaper - designs are highly stylised flowers, particularly poppies, water lilies and wisteria; branches, tendrils, leaves, stems, thistles, pomegranates; peacock feathers, birds and dragonflies.

Style -sinuous, elongated, curvy lines the whiplash line vertical lines and height stylised flowers, leaves, roots, buds and seedpods the female form - in a pre-Raphaelite pose with long, flowing hair exotic woods, marquetry, iridescent glass, silver and semi-precious stones

Influences
arts and crafts - art nouveau shared the same belief in quality goods and fine craftsmanship but was happy with mass production rococo style botanical research

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The Arts and Crafts Movement

In England and then America in the late 19th century, a middle class revolution occurred against Victorian values, industrialization and the mass production of low-quality products. Originally a British movement whose roots can be traced back to the early 1800's, the social and moral preachings of people such as John Ruskin and William Morris in the late 1800's influenced the burgeoning what would be known as the Arts and Crafts Movement.

The philosophy behind the Arts and Crafts Movement was recognition that technology, or industrialization, did not equate to a higher quality of life for individuals. The Arts and Crafts Movement believed that the degradation of social values, which was evident through poor working conditions, poverty and the exploitation of workers, was caused by wide-spread industrialization .

By 1880, the Arts and Crafts Movement became the symbol for the "liberal middle class". The movement strove to make art affordable to all people, create better working conditions, and influence a climate where artists who ranged from architects to those involved in the fine arts, were free to be creative.

In the new society which the Arts and Crafts Movement hoped to influence, artists could design and create each piece of work from start to finish. Pieces would be hand-made and of the best quality.

Ironically, by the end of the Arts and Crafts Movement in the first quarter of the 20th century, the products of the movement became so expensive that only the wealthy could afford them.

University of Victoria
Maltwood Art Museum

William Morris was one of the most influential voices in Victorian art and architecture, and his influence spread far into the 20th century in the form of the Arts and Crafts Movement that he helped spawn. There was a profound social philosophy behind Morris' designing. He was a committed socialist and medievalist who was horrified by increasing mechanization and mass-production in the arts, and he dreamed of reestablishing the values of traditional craftsmanship and simplicity of design. His slogan was that art should be "by the people, for the people"

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www.britainexpress.com

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey (1857 - 1941)

Charles Francis Annesley Voysey was an English architect, designer and typographer. He articled with architects J.P.Seddon and George Devey, and then opened an office of his own in 1882, concentrating on wallpaper and fabric designs rather than architecture. He designed his first house in 1888, and in 1900 built his own home "The Orchard" designing much of the furniture, decoration and fittings. His characteristic simple architectural style was highly influential, and was copied widely. In all he designed around 150 houses, and designed decorative arts products, including wallpaper, textiles and carpets for a variety of British firms.

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Lindsay Philip Butterfield, (1869-1948)

After training at the South Kensington National Art Training School, Butterfleld became a freelance designer of wallpapers and textlles. Butterfield sold designs to G P & J Baker, Warner & Sons, Thomas Wardle, Turnbull & Stockdale, Alexander Morton Newman, Smith & Neurman and David Barbour. He taught at a number of art schools and was a founder member of the Society of Designers.

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victorianweb.org

"The people of the United States spend $8,000,000 per annum for wallpaper, their requirements being about 57,142,860 rolls or about 457,142,400 yards."

The article also indicated that during this same year the retail price for wallpaper was 25 cents a roll. By these figures, it is clear that wallpaper manufacturing was a major industry in 1860's--1870's America.

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www.historybuff.com